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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Rape of the Sabine Women (section Pietro da Cortona)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Leonardo da Vinci, Filippo Brunelleschi, Donatello, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, Johann Wolfgang...
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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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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)
Saint Alexius or Saint Alexius Dying is an oil on canvas painting by Pietro da Cortona, created c. 1638. It is held in the Saint Alexis chapel in the Girolamini...
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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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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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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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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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as his principal collaborator (though other architects, especially Pietro da Cortona, were also involved). Thus did commence another extraordinarily prolific...
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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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popular in the Baroque, often paired with the Continence of Scipio. Pietro da Cortona "established his reputation" with a large painting in 1625 (now Pinacoteca...
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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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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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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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location of Villa Sforza. Its central salon ceiling was decorated by Pietro da Cortona with the visual panegyric of the Allegory of Divine Providence and...
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figures in a complex scenography and quadrature recalls the work of Pietro da Cortona. Mariano was born to poor parents in Sciacca, Sicily. He trained first...
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Romulus and Remus Taken in by Faustulus (category Paintings by Pietro da Cortona)
by Faustulus or Remus Discovered) is an oil on canvas painting by Pietro da Cortona, created c. 1643. It is held in the Louvre, in Paris. It is one of...
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Romulus and Remus Taken in by Faustulus (painting), an artwork by Pietro da Cortona Search for "Romulus" and "Remus" in page names Romulus (disambiguation)...
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