Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona ( born November 1, 1596 Cortona, † May 16, 1669 in Rome ) was an important architect and painter of the Roman High Baroque.

Life

To 1612 Pietro da Cortona moved with his teacher, the painter Andrea Commodi in Rome. Cortona's achievements in architecture and painting are equal. In painting, he contributed significantly in mainly by the murals of the ballroom at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome ( 1633-39 ), the development of monumental illusionistic ceiling fresco. As an architect, he was next to Bernini and Borromini to the three main programmatic core of the Roman High Baroque. While his earlier style is still characterized by Mannerist form wealth, his late style takes considerably klassizistischere trains. For the decorative arts are especially his work in the Palazzo Pitti important. They influenced for example Schlüters decoration designs for the Berlin Palace.

Works

Buildings

  • San Carlo al Corso ( SS Ambrogio e Carlo ), Rome, 1612-1684
  • Villa del Pigneto, Italy, 1626-1636
  • Santi Luca e Martina, Rome, 1634-1650
  • Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, 1656-1657
  • Santa Maria in Via Lata, Rome, 1658-1663
  • Designs for the Louvre, 1664

Painting

  • Glory of the Barberini, ceiling fresco in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, 1632-1639
  • Stoning of St. Stephen. 1660
  • Rape of the Sabines, Ln, Rome, Pinacoteca Capitolina
  • Marcello Borghese, Galleria Borghese, Rome
  • Four scenes from the life of David, Rome, Vatican Museums
  • The St. Charles Borromeo a nail from the cross Christ -supporting, Rome, San Carlo ai Catinari

Fame

After 1850, painted the genre painter Max Michael, who had lived 20 years in Rome, and was appointed in 1875 as professor in Berlin, his well-known picture Pietro da Cortona painted an altarpiece in a monastery.

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