Pietro Antonio or Pier Antonio Barbieri or Barbieri Pucciardi (active 1702-1730s) was an Italian painter, active in Rome, as a painter of religious subjects.
Biography
He was born in
Fosdinovo
Fosdinovo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Massa and Carrara in the Italian region Tuscany, located about northwest of Florence and about northwest of Massa.
Fosdinovo borders the following municipalities: Aulla, Carrara, Cast ...
and studied in Bologna with
Giovanni Giuseppe del Sole. From there he traveled to Rome to study at 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 ...
, where he won prizes in 1702. In 1727 he was a custodian of the Academy, and secretary of the Academy in 1729. He painted the Cappella Casoni and the cupola of the
Sarzana Cathedral
Sarzana Cathedral ( it, Concattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta di Sarzana) in Sarzana, Liguria, Italy, is a co-cathedral of the Diocese of La Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato. It is dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. The building is a mixture of ...
.
One source says he died in 1736.
Memorie biografiche degli scultori, architetti, pittori ec: nativi di Massa
by marchese Giuseppe Campori, page 208.
References
Year of birth unknown
1730s deaths
Italian Baroque painters
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian male artists
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