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Arconio, Mario
(b Rome, ?1575; d Rome, 1635). Italian painter and architect. He was a courtier–artist in the service of Cardinal Camillo Borghese, whose patronage he had the misfortune to abandon just before the latter’s election as Pope Paul V in 1605. Arconio remained in the town of Cori, of which he was governor, during most of the pontificate but returned to Rome in 1620 and submitted a design (unexecuted) for a new house and oratory for the Congregation of the Oratory. He painted a fresco over the door of the church of S Maria in Campo Carleo (destr. 1862), finished the convent and high altar of S Isidoro begun by Felice Antonio Casone (1559–1634), decorated the Cappella Merenda in S Maria della Vittoria (c. 1630), the portal of S Eufemia (destr. early 19th century), restored S Urbano ai Pantani (1634) and built the adjacent convent (destr.) under the patronage of Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte. He also worked on the Villa Sannesi (destr.) on the Via Flaminia and created the portal (destr.) of the Sannesi garden in the Borgo district of Rome. Exact building dates for his works, the attributions of which are based on Giovanni Baglione’s lists, are unknown, and Arconio remains an enigmatic personality.
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