Pietro da cortana biography of mahatma

Biography

Pietro da Corrtona (originally Pietro Berrettini), Italian painter, architect, decorator, and designer, second only to Bernini as the most versatile genius of the full Roman Baroque style. He was named after his birthplace in Tuscany and probably had some training with his father, a stonemason, before being apprenticed as a painter in Florence.

In 1612 or 1613 he moved to Rome.

Pietro Da Cortona (01.11.1596 - 16.05.1669) - Biography ...

His first major works were frescos in Sta Bibiana, Rome (1624-26), commissioned by Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini), and the patronage of the Barberini family played a major part in his career. For their palace he painted his most famous work, the huge ceiling fresco, Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power. This was begun in 1633, but he interrupted the work in 1637 to go to Florence and paint two of four frescos commissioned by the Grand Duke of Tuscany for the Pitti Palace.

He returned to finish the Barberini ceiling in 1639. This, one of the key works in the development of Baroque pa Web Gallery of Art, searchable fine arts image database KYMYP