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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 his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer ...
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Apr 2, 2024 · Pietro da Cortona (born Nov. 1, 1596, Cortona, Tuscany [Italy]—died May 16, 1669, Rome, Papal States) was an Italian architect, painter, and decorator, an outstanding exponent of Baroque style. Pietro studied in Rome from about 1612 under the minor Florentine painters Andrea Commodi and Baccio Ciarpi and was influenced by antique sculpture ...
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View all 28 artworks. Pietro da Cortona lived in the XVI – XVII cent., a remarkable figure of Italian Baroque. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
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- May 16, 1669
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Pietro da Cortona. 1596 - 1669. Pietro Berrettini was called after his native town of Cortona in Tuscany. He was trained by Andrea Commodi and in 1612 he moved to Rome. He painted frescoes, altarpieces, secular paintings and portraits. From 1633 to 1639 he executed one of the most splendid and influential decorative schemes in Rome, the ...
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 his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture.
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Pietro da Cortona o della pittura barocca. Florence, 1962, 1982. Campbell, Malcolm. Pietro da Cortona at the Pitti Palace. Princeton, 1977. Coffey, Caroline. "Pietro da Cortona's Project for the Church of San Firenze in Florence." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institutes in Florenz 22 (1978): 85–118. Félibien, André.
Pietro da Cortona. Also known as. Pietro da Cortona Berrettini, Pietro da Cortona, (Pietro Berrettini) Pietro da Cortona, (Pietro Berrettini), Pietro Berettini, Pietro Berrettini, Pietro Cortonese, Pietro da Cortona. Date of birth. 1596. Date of death. 1669.
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