American Colonial Era Painter, 1753-1820  Related Paintings of Francis Guy :. | View of Baltimore from Chapel Hill | Winter Scene in Brooklyn | Winter Scene in Brooklyn | View of Baltimore from Chapel Hill | Winter Scene in Brooklyn |
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Paul, John
English, active 1858-1886
Master of The Castello Nativity
Florence ca 1450-ca 1475
PRETI, Mattia
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1613-1699 Italian painter and draughtsman. Although he was trained and had his first success as a painter in Rome during the 1630s and 1640s, he is traditionally associated with the Neapolitan school. It was in Naples between 1653 and 1660 that he made his most lasting mark (see fig. 1), contributing to the evolution of the exuberant late Baroque style and providing an important source of inspiration to later generations of painters, notably to Francesco Solimena. From 1661 he was based in Malta, where his most substantial undertaking was the decoration of St John's, Valletta. Preti's mature style is intensely dramatic and unites a Caravaggesque realism and expressive chiaroscuro with the grandeur and theatricality of Venetian High Renaissance painting.