Andrea Camassei - The Massacre of the Niobids - WGA03791

Andrea Camassei (November 1602 – 1649) was an Italian

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

painter and engraver mainly active in Rome under the patronage of the

Barberini The House of Barberini are a family of the Italian nobility that rose to prominence in 17th century Rome. Their influence peaked with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne in 1623, as Pope Urban VIII. Their urban palace ...

Biography

He was born in

Bevagna Bevagna is a town and ''comune'' in the central part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria), in the flood plain of the Topino river. Bevagna is south-east of Perugia, west of Foligno, north-north-west of Montefalco, south of Assisi and ...

in Umbria to parents of modest means, Angelina d' Anton Maria Angeli and Lorenzo. He was active in painting in the

Palazzo Barberini The Palazzo Barberini ( en, Barberini Palace) is a 17th-century palace in Rome, facing the Piazza Barberini in Rione Trevi. Today, it houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, the main national collection of older paintings in Rome. History T ...

as well as in Antonio Barberini's favored church, Santa Maria della Concezione, where he painted the ''Assumption of the Virgin'' on the dome. His training was under

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, but he also labored under the direction of

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and

Pietro da Cortona Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...

. He painted a ''Triumph of Constantine'' for the Baptistery of the Lateran Palace. He painted for

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, two large canvases (1638–39) depicting ''Massacre of the Niobids'' and '' Hunt of Diana''. He also painted a ''Saints Bonaventura, Bernardino & Ludovico da Tolosa'' for Santa Caterina in Rapecchiano (Spello). Santi Bonaventura, Bernardino e Ludovico da Tolosa
in Santa Caterina - Rapecchiano (Spello)

References

* * * * 1602 births 1649 deaths People from Bevagna 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub