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    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...
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    women with exposed breasts and a soldier lifting up a woman's skirt. Pietro da Cortona depicted the rape of the Sabines at least twice. There are at least...
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    (1581–1643), sculptor and architect Pietro da Cortona (1596–1669), important architect and painter Domenico Cecchi "il Cortona" (c. 1650/55–1717), celebrated...
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    Maderno (completed 1612) and the lavish Barberini Palace interiors by Pietro da Cortona (1633–1639). Church of the Gesù by Giacomo della Porta (consecrated...
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    refer to either of two oil paintings by the Italian Baroque artist Pietro da Cortona, created c. 1629-1630. One is in the Capitol Museum, Rome. The other...
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    of art. The finest rooms were decorated by Pietro da Cortona in the high baroque style. Initially Cortona frescoed a small room on the piano nobile called...
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    church in Rome and the Palazzo Barberini. A contemporary rival of Pietro da Cortona, Sacchi studied the paintings of Raphael and the influence of Raphael...
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    of Santi Luca e Martina, does. Designed by the Baroque architect, Pietro da Cortona, its main façade overlooks the Forum. The Academy's predecessor was...
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    Providence and Barberini Power is a fresco by the Italian Baroque painter Pietro da Cortona, filling the large ceiling of the grand salon of the Palazzo Barberini...
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    Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1656–1667 Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, by Pietro da Cortona, 1656–1667 The first building in Rome to have a Baroque façade was...
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    Leonardo da Vinci, Filippo Brunelleschi, Donatello, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, Johann Wolfgang...
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    The Death of Saint Alexius (category Paintings by Pietro da Cortona)
    Alexius or Saint Alexius Dying is a c.1638 oil on canvas painting by Pietro da Cortona in the Saint Alexis chapel in the Girolamini, Naples. It shows the...
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    canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture...
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    huge Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power painted by Pietro da Cortona on the ceiling of the large salon of the Palazzo Barberini. Another...
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    Santi Luca e Martina (category Pietro da Cortona buildings)
    constructions until it was rebuilt by the painter and architect, Pietro da Cortona, in the seventeenth century. In 1577 the Accademia di San Luca, the...
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    Caesar Restoring Cleopatra to the Throne of Egypt (category Paintings by Pietro da Cortona)
    Cleopatra to the Throne of Egypt' is an oil on canvas painting by Pietro da Cortona, one of three works by this artist and six works by others commissioned...
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    Villa Sacchetti at Castelfusano (category Pietro da Cortona buildings)
    associates of Pope Urban VIII, and was the first architectural work of Pietro da Cortona. The villa is now known as Castello Chigi since its acquisition by...
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    latter decades of his life, he was, along with Francesco Borromini and Pietro da Cortona, one of the major rivals of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in Rome. He is now...
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    as his principal collaborator (though other architects, especially Pietro da Cortona, were also involved). Thus did commence another extraordinarily prolific...
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    in the fountain as it exists today. An early influential model by Pietro da Cortona, preserved in the Albertina, Vienna, also exists, as do various early...
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    artworks, including the Nativity of Raffaello Vanni, the Annunciation by Pietro da Cortona, St. Anthony of Padua and the miracle of the mule by Cigoli (1597)...
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    Tour Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene (between 1640 and 1650) by Pietro da Cortona The Magdalene (before 1792) by George Romney Mary Magdalene (1858–1860)...
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    Architecture. OUP Oxford. ISBN 9780192842275. Merz, Jörg Martin (2008). Pietro Da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300111231...
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    Tempietto at San Pietro in Montorio supported by two kneeling angels and with behind it a painting of the Holy Trinity by Pietro da Cortona. Near the altar...
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    accommodates the long gallery designed by Borromini and frescoed by Pietro da Cortona. Piazza Navona has two other fountains. At the southern end is the...
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    Vatican Pinacoteca). The Fabricca di San Pietro had originally awarded the commission to Pietro da Cortona, who had produced only preliminary designs...
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    by Barocci, Pietro da Cortona's ceilings, and the Rubens altarpiece on an unusual slate, canvas and copper support. Pietro da Cortona's decorations include...
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    a period that spanned several papal reigns from 1623 to 1667, was Pietro da Cortona. His baroque manner is clearly evident in paintings that he executed...
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    Farnese, Rome Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power, Pietro da Cortona, Palazzo Barberini Ceilings, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, (New Residenz)...
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    Santa Felice da Cantalice by Alessandro Turchi. The left first chapel has Ananias Heals Paul’s Blindness (c. 1631) by Pietro da Cortona. Jesus Christ...
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