Giuseppe Passeri

Giuseppe Passeri (* March 12, 1654 in Rome, † November 2, 1714 ) was an Italian architect, church painter and portraitist of the classical Baroque Rome.

Giuseppe was the nephew and pupil of the painter and art writer Giovanni Battista Passeri. Later he went into the workshop of Carlo Maratta, where he was its preferred students and workshop successor. On September 20, 1693 Passeri member of the Accademia di San Luca and 1701 the Congregation of the Virtuosi al Pantheon. He created numerous churches of Rome altarpieces and frescoes in the style of classical Roman Baroque. Outside of Rome Passeri was 1685 creator of the choir frescoes in the cathedral of Viterbo and worked for the San Antonio Confraternita in Pesaro. As an architect, he was in 1680 involved in the reconstruction of the Church of Santa Barbara alla Regola dei Librai in Rome, he comes to the design of the facade.

Works

Paintings in Roman churches

  • San Sebastiano Catacombs all or fuori le mura Cappella di San Fabiano San Fabiano blesses Emperor Philipp
  • Santa Maria Maggiore: panel
  • Santa Croce in Gerusalemme: altarpiece Doubting Thomas (1675 )
  • Santa Maria in Aracoeli: Wall fresco on the interior facade Evangelist Luke and Death and Assumption of the Virgin (1686 /88)
  • San Francesco a Ripa: altarpiece of Saint Catherine of Siena
  • Santa Maria in Campitelli Portico ceiling fresco
  • Santa Maria in Vallicella: Frescoes in the clerestory key ceremony at Peter and Moses breaks the tables of the law
  • Santo Spirito dei Napoletano: Trinity with Saints and Angels (1707 )
  • San Giacomo in Augusta: Several panel paintings in the side chapels
  • Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli: panel paintings Three Archangels and scenes from the life
  • San Tommaso in Parione: Interior decoration and altarpiece Annunciation

Paintings in Museums (selection)

  • Galleria Doria Pamphili - ( Rome): John preaching Inv. # 425
  • Kunsthalle Bremen: panel portrait of the effigies Sisini Poli Inv. No 485-1938/7
  • Musée du Louvre (Paris): Armida and Rinaldo ( 1685-90 ) and Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
  • Galleria degli Uffizi, Vasari Corridor: Self Portrait
  • The Fitzwilliam Museum (Cambridge): Visions of Saint Filippo Neri ( 1700 )
  • The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Maryland): expulsion of the money changers from the Temple (1712 /14)
  • Universal Museum Joanneum (Graz): Mary in Glory

Drawings (selection)

  • Art Institute of Chicago The St. Augustine with two angels before the Crucifix
  • Musée du Louvre ( Pari) 86 drawings
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art ( New York) 7 drawings
  • The Royal Collection (Windsor Castle): Christ distributes the money changers out of the temple
  • The Courtauld Institute of Art ( London) 8 drawings
  • Albertina (Vienna) 3 drawings
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