biography
pronunciation:
[marahtee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1625–1713)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Camerano, EC Italy. He studied in Rome, and his first work attracted many commissions for altarpieces, including ‘The Virgin with SS Charles and Ignatius’ (c.1685, S Maria in Vallicella, Rome). A leader of the 17th-c Baroque school, he also painted many notable canvasses and frescoes in Rome, and became a noted portraitist. |
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