biography
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Cortona, Pietro (Berrettini) da
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pronunciation:
[kaw(r)tohna]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1596–1669)
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| biography:
| Painter and architect, born in Cortona, C Italy. With Bernini he ranks as one of the great figures of the Baroque in Rome. With Lanfranco and Guercino he was the founder of the Roman High Baroque style in painting. He specialized in highly illusionistic ceiling painting in which paint is combined with stucco and gilt, notably in his ‘Allegory of Divine Providence’ and ‘Barberini Power’ (1633–39) in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome. |
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