Pietro da Cortona

Italian painter and architect

1596 CE to 1669 CE

Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berrettini, born Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, (1 November 1596 – 16 May 1669) is an Italian artist and architect of High Baroque.

He is best known for painting fresco ceilings, a pursuit in which he has ample competition in the Rome of his day, but he is equally adept and masterful with architectural design.

While an influential contemporary and peer of the giants of the Roman Baroque, his present fame, somewhat undeservedly, does not match the reverence awarded the likes of Caravaggio, Bernini, and Borromini.

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