(b Cortona, ?1 Nov 1596; bapt 27 Nov 1597; d Rome,
16 May 1669).
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 façades and stucco decorations were, however, conclusive and
independent solutions to problems central to Roman Baroque architecture.
Nativity of the Virgin canvas
Musee du Louvre, Paris
The Guardian Angel
1656
Oil on canvas, 225 x 143 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
Holy Family Resting on the Flight to Egypt
c. 1643
Oil on copper, 48 x 39 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Pieta
1620-25
Oil on canvas
S. Chiara, Cortona
The Rape of the Sabine Women
1627-29
Oil on canvas, 280,5 x 426 cm
Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome
Romulus and Remus Given Shelter by Faustulus
c. 1643
Oil on canvas, 251 x 266 cm
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Venus as Huntress Appears to Aeneas
Oil on canvas
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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