Pietro da Cortona (Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro da (k)korˈtoːna]; 1 November 1596 or 1597 – 16 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with...
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(1581–1643), sculptor and architect Pietro da Cortona (1596–1669), important architect and painter Domenico Cecchi "il Cortona" (c. 1650/55–1717), celebrated...
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women with exposed breasts and a soldier lifting up a woman's skirt. Pietro da Cortona depicted the rape of the Sabines at least twice. There are at least...
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refer to either of two oil paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Pietro da Cortona, created c. 1629-1630. One is in the Capitol Museum, Rome. The other...
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Maderno (completed 1612) and the lavish Barberini Palace interiors by Pietro da Cortona (1633–1639), and Santa Susanna (1603), by Carlo Maderno. In France...
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of art. The finest rooms were decorated by Pietro da Cortona in the high baroque style. Initially Cortona frescoed a small room on the piano nobile called...
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Berrettini (born 1996), Italian tennis player Pietro Berrettini (1596/7 – 1669), better known as Pietro da Cortona, Italian Baroque painter and architect This...
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church in Rome and the Palazzo Barberini. A contemporary rival of Pietro da Cortona, Sacchi studied the paintings of Raphael and the influence of Raphael...
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Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power (redirect from Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power (Cortona))
Providence and Barberini Power is a fresco by the Italian Baroque painter Pietro da Cortona, filling the large ceiling of the grand salon of the Palazzo Barberini...
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of Santi Luca e Martina, does. Designed by the Baroque architect, Pietro da Cortona, its main façade overlooks the Forum. The Academy's predecessor was...
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1656–1667 Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, by Pietro da Cortona, 1656–1667 The first building in Rome to have a Baroque façade was...
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Leonardo da Vinci, Filippo Brunelleschi, Donatello, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, Johann Wolfgang...
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huge Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power painted by Pietro da Cortona on the ceiling of the large salon of the Palazzo Barberini. Another...
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Santi Luca e Martina (category Pietro da Cortona buildings)
constructions until it was rebuilt by the painter and architect, Pietro da Cortona, in the seventeenth century. In 1577 the Accademia di San Luca, the...
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The Death of Saint Alexius (category Paintings by Pietro da Cortona)
Alexius or Saint Alexius Dying is a c.1638 oil on canvas painting by Pietro da Cortona in the Saint Alexis chapel in the Girolamini, Naples. It shows the...
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Villa Sacchetti at Castelfusano (category Pietro da Cortona buildings)
associates of Pope Urban VIII, and was the first architectural work of Pietro da Cortona. The villa is now known as Castello Chigi since its acquisition by...
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in the fountain as it exists today. An early influential model by Pietro da Cortona, preserved in the Albertina, Vienna, also exists, as do various early...
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Caesar Restoring Cleopatra to the Throne of Egypt (category Paintings by Pietro da Cortona)
Cleopatra to the Throne of Egypt' is an oil on canvas painting by Pietro da Cortona, one of three works by this artist and six works by others commissioned...
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canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture...
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fundamental to the development of illusionism in Italy. Pietro Berrettini, called Pietro da Cortona, developed the illusionistic ceiling fresco to an extraordinary...
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latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major rivals of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in Rome. He is now...
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as his principal collaborator (though other architects, especially Pietro da Cortona, were also involved). Thus did commence another extraordinarily prolific...
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St. Peter's Basilica (redirect from Basilica di San Pietro)
Tempietto at San Pietro in Montorio supported by two kneeling angels and with behind it a painting of the Holy Trinity by Pietro da Cortona. Near the altar...
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artworks, including the Nativity of Raffaello Vanni, the Annunciation by Pietro da Cortona, St. Anthony of Padua and the miracle of the mule by Cigoli (1597)...
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and Barberini Power (1633–39), in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome by Pietro da Cortona. Here a figure identified as Immortality is flying, with her crown...
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Tour Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene (between 1640 and 1650) by Pietro da Cortona The Magdalene (before 1792) by George Romney Mary Magdalene (1858–1860)...
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Vatican Pinacoteca). The Fabricca di San Pietro had originally awarded the commission to Pietro da Cortona, who had produced only preliminary designs...
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accommodates the long gallery designed by Borromini and frescoed by Pietro da Cortona. Piazza Navona has two other fountains. At the southern end is the...
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painters Andrea Sacchi and his pupil Carlo Maratta, however, he omitted Pietro da Cortona. Bellori often relied for his facts on the earlier biographies of...
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(1982). He intended to write a monograph about the architecture of Pietro da Cortona but he died before realising the project. His manuscripts were sent...
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