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Pietro da Cortona
Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, painter and architect, was one of the founders of the Roman High Baroque, comparable with Bernini in sculpture. His first works were painted for the Sacchetti family and are now in the Capitoline Gallery, Rome, along with other works of his, but he was soon taken up by the powerful Barberini family - the family of Urban VIII - for whom he painted frescoes in Sta Bibiana, Rome (1624-6), followed by his greatest work, the ceiling in the Barberini Palace (now the Galleria Nazionale, Rome). This is a huge fresco representing an Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power, begun in 1633 and completed in 1639; a sketch for it is now exhibited with it, but its authenticity is open to doubt. The fresco is a huge illusion, like the ceilings of Lanfranco or Gurcino, with the central field apparently open to the sky and scores of figures seen 'al di Sotto in Su' apparently coming into the room itself or floating above it. While working on this Pietro also went to Florence and began a series of similar frescoes in the Pitti Palace; he also began a series of frescoes in the Chiesa Nuova, Rome, which was not finished until 1665 (the modello for the cupola is now in Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum).
Towards the end of his life he devoted much of his time to architecture, but he published a treatise on painting in 1652 under a pseudonym and in collaboration. He refused invitations to both France and Spain. With the help of numerous pupils, of whom Ciro Ferri was the most important, he painted many other frescoes and easel pictures in Rome and Florence.
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The Anatomical Plates of Pietro Da Cortona : 27 Baroque Masterpieces by Pietro da Cortona
Pietro Da Cortona at the Pitti Palace: A Study of the Planetary Rooms and Related Projects (Monographs in Art and Architecture: No. 41) by Malcolm Campbell
La casa di Pietro da Cortona : architettura, accademia, atelier e officina by Donatella L. Sparti
Pietro da Cortona, La Galatea by Pietro
Studien zur Malerei und Architektur von Pietro Berrettini da Cortona : Versuch einer gattungsübergreifenden Analyse zum Illusionismus im römischen by Lieselotte Kugler
Pietro Da Cortona E I Cortoneschi: Gimignani, Romanelli, Baldi, Il Borgognone, Ferri by Maurizio Fagiolo Dell'arco
Pietro da Cortona : der Aufstieg zum führenden Maler im barocken Rom by Jörg Martin Merz
Nuove tecniche di foderatura : le tele vaticane di Pietro da Cortona ad Urbino by Benedetta Fazi
Da uno a molti : democratizzazione e rinascita dei partiti in Europa orientale by Pietro Grilli Di Cortona
Le crisi politiche nei regimi comunisti : Ungheria, Cecoslovacchia e Polonia da Stalin agli anni ottanta by Pietro Grilli Di Cortona
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Pietro da Cortona, Agostino Ciampelli in Santa Bibiana a Roma : i restauri by Vitaliano Tiberia
Pietro da Cortona : 1597-1669 by Pietro
Pietro da Cortona : per la sua terra : da allievo a maestro by Electa
Pietro da Cortona e il disegno by Electa
Pietro da Cortona, il meccanismo della forma : ricerche sulla tecnica pittorica by Electa
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