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Domenichino’s fresco cycle maps out an opposite approach to art. Carried out between 1612 and 1615, it illustrates the life and martyrdom of Saint Cecilia, a convert from a wealthy Roman family martyred in the second or third century.
Ideas on art. A Virgin with a Unicorn, c. 1604 –05, fresco in Palazzo Farnese, Rome, after a design by Annibale Carracci. Domenichino's work, developed principally from Raphael's and the Carracci's examples, mirrors the theoretical ideas of his friend Giovanni Battista Agucchi, with whom the painter collaborated on a Treatise on Painting.
Domenichino was important as a painter of classical landscape, following Annibale. The Gallery contains a series of frescoes on mythological themes that he painted for the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati. Domenichino was born in Bologna, and trained there under Ludovico Carracci.
Artist: Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) (Italian, Bologna 1581–1641 Naples) Date: 1610–16. Medium: Oil on copper. Dimensions: 17 3/4 x 13 3/8 in. (45.1 x 34 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976. Accession Number: 1976.155.2
Domenichino (born October 1581, Bologna, Papal States [Italy]—died April 6, 1641, Naples) was an Italian painter who was a leading practitioner of Baroque classicism in Rome and Bologna. He was trained in the academy of Lodovico Carracci and in 1602 was in Rome, where he joined the Bolognese artists at work under the direction of Annibale ...
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'Domenichino, who is renowned for his large-scale frescoes, history paintings, and altarpieces, became Italy's leading classical painter in the first half of the seventeenth century. Trained at...
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Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri) Italian. 1603. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 640. The surface of this pristinely preserved painting has an enamel-like finish and jewellike depth of color. It was painted by Domenichino a year after he moved from his native Bologna to Rome.
