Lazzaro Baldi ( – 30 March 1703) was an Italian painter and engraver 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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.The idea of artist's death and his burial in the Italian seventeenth century
in "Rivista d'arte", V ser., 2016 - a.51, n. 6 (2018), pp. 185-212

Biography

Study

Baldi was born in Pistoia around 1624. He is initially believed to have been a pupil of a little known Francesco Leoncini in his native city. Attracted by the fame of his fellow Tuscan

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 ...

and seeking his instruction, he sought da Cortona in Rome, where he was welcomed. Pascoli said that he obtained his first commissions through da Cortona, under whom he became adept at fresco technique.

Work

The first public work was probably the ''St Francis'' painted in the third chapel to the left in the church of San Marco in Rome, dating back to the seventeenth century decoration of the church (1653–56). He painted a ''David and Goliath'' for

Alexander VII Pope Alexander VII ( it, Alessandro VII; 13 February 159922 May 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April 1655 to his death in May 1667. He began his career as a vice- papal legate, an ...

in the

Palazzo Quirinale The Quirinal Palace ( it, Palazzo del Quirinale ) is a historic building in Rome, Italy, one of the three current official residences of the president of the Italian Republic, together with Villa Rosebery in Naples and the Tenuta di Castelporzia ...

, where his style evolved into a choice of light tones that are typical of his style and is today most noticeable in his frescoes. Gradually, Baldi came to personal interpretation of Cortona's style, by then the dominant style in Rome along with style represented by

Andrea Sacchi Andrea Sacchi (30 November 159921 June 1661) was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculpto ...

. He accepted compositional formulas and the typology, but not the baroque impetus. In the representation of the landscape, he was influenced by

Gaspar Dughet Gaspard Dughet (15 June 1615 – 25 May 1675), also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome. Life Dughet was born in Rome, the son of a French pastry-cook and his Italian wife. He has always generally been considered as a F ...

- the French artist who painted the background in the ''Creation of Adam and Eve'' - and also by

Pier Francesco Mola Pier Francesco Mola, called Il Ticinese (9 February 1612 – 13 May 1666) was an Italian painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome. Biography Mola was born at Coldrerio (now in Ticino, Switzerland).''Ecstasy in the Wilderness: Pi ...

's background in the altarpiece ''The Rest During the Flight to Egypt''.

Religious commissions

He also painted frescoes for the church of

San Giovanni in Oleo San Giovanni in Oleo is a chapel adjacent to the church of San Giovanni a Porta Latina in Rome. It commemorates the place where, according to legend, in 92 CE, at the hands of the emperor Domitian, the apostle John was immersed in a vat of boiling ...

(1658), and ''San Giovanni in Patmos'' (1660–1665) for

San Giovanni in Laterano The Archbasilica Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and of Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist in the Lateran ( it, Arcibasilica del Santissimo Salvatore e dei Santi Giovanni Battista ed Evangelista in Laterano), also known as the Papa ...

. He also painted an altarpiece of the ''Martyrdom of St. Lazarus'' for the church of

Santi Luca e Martina Santi Luca e Martina is a church in Rome, Italy, situated between the Roman Forum and the Forum of Caesar and close to the Arch of Septimus Severus. History The church was initially dedicated to Saint Martina, martyred in 228 AD during the reign ...

. He also worked in

Camerino Camerino is a town in the province of Macerata, Marche, central-eastern Italy. It is located in the Apennines bordering Umbria, between the valleys of the rivers Potenza and Chienti, about from Ancona. Camerino is home to the University of C ...

Pistoia Pistoia (, is a city and ''comune'' in the Italian region of Tuscany, the capital of a province of the same name, located about west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno. It is a typi ...

(an ''Annunciation'' for the church of San Francesco and a ''Repose in Egypt'' for the Umilta) and

Perugia Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...

(Casa Borgia-Montemellino). As an engraver, Baldi is known for a plate on ''The Conversion of St. Paul''.

Gallery

File:Battle of Constantine and Maxentius (detail-of-fresco-in-Vatican-Stanze) c1650 by Lazzaro Baldi after Giulio Romano at the University of Edinburgh.jpg, ''Battle of Constantine and Maxentius (detail-of-fresco-in-Vatican-Stanze) c. 1650'' File:Het mystieke huwelijk van de heilige Rosa van Lima. Rijksmuseum SK-A-596.jpeg, ''The mystical marriage of Saint Rosa of Lima'' File:Lazzaro Baldi (attr) Joseph and Potiphar's wife.jpg, ''Joseph and the Wife of Potiphar'' File:Lazzaro Baldi - The family of Darius before Alexander the Great.jpg, ''The family of Darius before Alexander the Great'' File:Lazzaro baldi, clemenza di scipione verso le donne degli ilergeti, 1660-61.jpg, ''The Continence of Scipio'' File:Lazzaro Baldi, Madonna con il Bambino tra i Santi Carlo e Francesco 03.jpg, ''Madonna and Child in the Church of San Fillippo (Fossombrone)'' File:Lazzaro baldi, natività di maria, 01.jpg, ''The Nativity in the Church of Santa Pudenziana (Rome)'' File:Lazzaro baldi, scipione colma di doni il re di numidia massinissa, 1660-61.jpg, ''Scipio presents gifts to the king of Numidia, Massinissa'' File:Santa sabina, visione di santa caterina con cristo e le corone, xviii secolo.jpg, ''Vision of Saint Catherine with Christ and the crowns at the Convent of Santa Sabina in Rome''

Teaching

In 1695, he became principe of the

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...

in Rome. One of his pupils was

Giovanni Domenico Brugieri Giovanni Domenico Brugieri (1678–1744) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period in Lucca. Lanzi is cited as referring to him as either ''Giovanni Domenico'' or in other places as ''Giovanni Batista'' or ''Battista'',. Biography He was ...

Death

Baldi died in

in 1703.

References

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