The Sienese Master of Baroque Devotion Raffaello Vanni, born in the vibrant artistic cradle of Siena around 1587, remains a profound figure of the Italian Baroque, an artist whose brush captured the spiritual fervor and dramatic tension of his era. His journey into the world of fine art was one of both inheritance and transformation. Initially, he labored under the watchful eye of his father, Francesco Vanni, a respected painter who p…