Guido Ubaldo Abbatini (1600–1656) 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, active mainly in

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and

Usigni Usigni is a village in Umbria, a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Poggiodomo in the Province of Perugia The Province of Perugia ( it, Provincia di Perugia) is the larger of the two provinces in the Umbria region of Italy, comprising two-thirds ...

Biography

Guido Ubaldo Abbatini was a pupil of the painter Giuseppe Cesari and of

Gian Lorenzo Bernini Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (, , ; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 159828 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was more prominently the leading sculptor of his ...

, and later worked under

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 frequently painted in fresco. He was born in

Città di Castello Città di Castello (); "Castle Town") is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Perugia, in the northern part of Umbria. It is situated on a slope of the Apennines, on the flood plain along the upper part of the river Tiber. The city is north of ...

and died in Rome. He also painted the ceiling of the Cornaro chapel of Santa Theresa in Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

References

* * 1600 births 1656 deaths People from Città di Castello 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Pupils of Gian Lorenzo Bernini {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub