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Pietro da Cortona
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Pietro da Cortona, born Pietro Berrettini in 1596, was an Italian painter, architect, general contractor, and draftsperson associated with the Baroque movement. He studied under Andrea Commodi and Baccio Ciarpi and later taught Carlo Fontana. His professional work locations included Florence, Rome, and Venice.
His notable works include *Caesar Giving Cleopatra the Throne of Egypt* and *Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power*. His artworks are held in the collections of the Städel Museum, Museo del Prado, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. He died in Rome in 1669 and was buried at Santi Luca e Martina.
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Key facts
- Born
- Pietro Berrettini , ( 1596-11-01 ) 1 November 1596 or 1597, Cortona , Grand Duchy of Tuscany
- Died
- 16 May 1669 (1669-05-16) (aged 72), Rome, Papal States
- Known for
- Painting and architecture
- Movement
- Baroque
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pietro
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Cortona
- Place of death
- Rome
- Occupation
- visual artist
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Student of
- Andrea Commodi
- Field of work
- architecture
- Genre
- architect
- Movement
- Baroque
- Image
- Ajaccio Da Cortona Autoportrait.JPG
- Work location
- Venice
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- topic's main category
- Category:Pietro da Cortona
- Commons category
- Pietro da Cortona
- date of birth
- 1596-11-01
- date of death
- 1669-05-16
- Commons Creator page
- Pietro da Cortona
- Commons gallery
- Pietro da Cortona
- name in native language
- Pietro da Cortona
- has works in the collection
- Groeningemuseum
- birth name
- Pietro Berrettini
- place of burial
- Santi Luca e Martina
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Pietro da Cortona, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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[Rébecca cachant les idoles de son père; Rebecca hiding her father 's idols; Rebecca hiding her father’s idol]
![[Minerva and Kekrops with the Olive Tree in the Poor]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdiglib.hab.de%2Fvaria%2Fhaum%2Fberrettini-p-nach-ab3-0010%2Fmax%2F000001.jpg&type=IMAGE)
[Minerva and Kekrops with the Olive Tree in the Poor]
Head of Mary
Hercules and the Hesperides
![[Pièce avec des ornemens de stuc où l “on remarque à gauche une femme, à droite un homme, l” un et l “autre nuds et assis. Près de l” homme est un enfant qui tient un lis]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdiglib.hab.de%2Fvaria%2Fhaum%2Fcesio-c-ab2-0010%2Fmax%2F000001.jpg&type=IMAGE)
[Pièce avec des ornemens de stuc où l “on remarque à gauche une femme, à droite un homme, l” un et l “autre nuds et assis. Près de l” homme est un enfant qui tient un lis]
Sala di Marte, ceiling painting: Triumph of Medici
Reception of the young prince accompanied by Hercules and Victoria by Jupiter
Santa Maria della Pace
Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso
Sacrifice of Diana
vault pattern
Santi Luca e Martina
Madonna and Saint
Vision of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Apse image
The Vision of Saint Filippo Neri: Miraculous Intervention of the Virgin Mary in the Church
Saints Bibiana and Demetria before the Prefect
Headstone of sculptor Francesco Righettio
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Encyclopedic overview
Pietro da Cortona ( Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro da (k)korˈtoːna]; 1 November 1596 or 1597 – 16 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations.
He was born Pietro Berrettini, but is primarily known by the name of his native town of Cortona in Tuscany. He worked mainly in Rome and Florence. He is best known for his frescoed ceilings, such as the vault of the salone or main salon of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome and carried out extensive painting and decorative schemes for the Medici family in Florence and for the Oratorian fathers at the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella in Rome. He also painted numerous canvases. Only a limited number of his architectural projects were built, but nonetheless they are as distinctive and as inventive as those of his rivals.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pietro da Cortona” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.