Filippo Gherardi (1643–1704) was an Italian painter of the

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 ...

period. Born in

Lucca Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as one o ...

, he was mostly active in Venice and Rome, where he became a member of the large studio of

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 ...

, often working closely with Giovanni Coli. With Coli, Gherardi was initially a trainee of

Pietro Paolini Pietro Paolini, called il Lucchese (3 June 1603 – 12 April 1681) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Working in Rome, Venice and finally his native Lucca, he was a follower of Caravaggio to whose work he responded in a very personal ...

. One of his masterpieces are the ceiling frescoes in the

Palazzo Colonna The Palazzo Colonna () is a palatial block of buildings in central Rome, Italy, at the base of the Quirinal Hill, and adjacent to the church of Santi Apostoli. It is built in part over the ruins of an old Roman serapeum, and it has belonged to t ...

in Rome, celebrating the participation of a family member in the ''

Battle of Lepanto The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states (comprising Spain and its Italian territories, several independent Italian states, and the Soverei ...

''. In Venice, Coli and Gherardi also completed frescoes (1670–72) of the dome of the church of ''

San Nicolò da Tolentino Nicholas of Tolentino ( la, S. Nicolaus de Tolentino, (c. 1246September 10, 1305), known as the ''Patron of Holy Souls'', was an Italian saint and Mysticism, mystic. He is particularly invoked as an advocate for the souls in Purgatory, especial ...

'' with a fresco of the ''Glory of San Nicola'' and in the church of

San Pantalon The Chiesa di San Pantaleone Martire, known as San Pantalon in the Venetian dialect, is a church in the Dorsoduro ''sestiere'' of Venice, Italy. It is located on the Campo San Pantalon (square), and is dedicated to Saint Pantaleon. The 17th-centu ...

. In Venice, Coli and Gherardi also frescoed the Library in the monastery of

San Giorgio Maggiore San Giorgio Maggiore ( vec, San Zorzi Mazor) is one of the islands of Venice, northern Italy, lying east of the Giudecca and south of the main island group. The island, or more specifically its Palladian church, is an important landmark. It ha ...

. One of his pupils was Cristoforo Tondini, who worked with him in San Pantalon.La nuova pittura, opera del signor Filippo Gherardi da Lucca, su la volta, e tribuna della chiesa di San Pantaleo
by Francesco Zanoni, page 12.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gherardi, Filippo 1643 births 1704 deaths Italian Baroque painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Lucca 18th-century Italian male artists