Tommaso Laureti

Tommaso Tommaso Laureti or Laureti Siciliano (* around 1530 in Palermo, † September 22, 1602 ) was a Sicilian painter.

Life and works

Laureti was trained by Sebastiano del Piombo. After the death of his teacher, he settled in Bologna. Works from this period are about Alexander the Great, a painting in which can be seen clearly his interest in illusionistic perspective designs. For the church of San Giacomo Maggiore, he created a painting of St. Augustine. The best known, however, is likely to be the fountain of Neptune in Bologna, the base design goes back to a drawing Lauretis from 1563.

From 1582 he lived and worked in Rome Laureti. There is about a death of Susanna over the high altar of the church of Saint Susanna. But plants are not Christian content are handed down from Laureti: Several frescoes in the conservator Palace show highlights of Roman history, the judgment of Brutus Horatius Cocles defending the Pons Sublicius, the victory at Regillussee and Gaius Mucius Scaevola in the confrontation with Porsena. Testimony of his lifelong preoccupation with the potential capacities of the central perspective puts the Triumph of Christianity in the Sala di Constantino from which he under Pope Gregory XIII. started and completed under Sixtus V..

An altar painting in the Basilica di San Prospero in Reggio Emilia, he could not accomplish. It was completed painted by Ludovico Carracci.

Office and Aftermath

1595 Laureti became the second director of the Accademia di San Luca after Federico Zuccaro. There is also to be posthumously painted portrait Orazio Borgianni created in 1603.