1596-1669 Italian Pietro da Cortona Galleries Italian painter, draughtsman and architect. He was, together with Gianlorenzo Bernini and Franceso Borromini, one of the three leading artists of the Roman Baroque. As a painter he developed the early Baroque style, initiated by Annibale Carracci, to a magnificent and imposing High Baroque. His fresco decorations set a standard for European Baroque painting until they were eclipsed by Giambattista Tiepolo's works and those of other Venetian masters of the 18th century. As an architect Cortona was far less influential. His imaginative designs for fa?ades and stucco decorations were, however, conclusive and independent solutions to problems central to Roman Baroque architecture.   Related Paintings of Pietro da Cortona :. | Holy Family Resting on thte Flight to Egypt (mk08) | Giorification of the Rule of Urban Vii (nn03) | Romulus and Remus Brought Back by Faustulus (mk05) | Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power | The Nativity and the Adoration of the Shepherds |
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Giovanni di
active 1310-1347 in Siena
Karl Heffner
painted Am Ufer in 1849 - 1925
master of St-Germain-des-Pres
originally from cologne active in Paris about 1500