Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berretini)
Landscape with Saint Mary Magdalen
About this artwork
This landscape is close in style to Cortona’s frescoes in the Villa Sacchetti at Castelfusano outside Rome. Pietro da Cortona was the foremost decorative painter of the Roman Baroque and one of its leading architects. His landscapes show a remarkable freshness of vision and independence from the dominant classical trend in seventeenth-century landscape painting, stemming from Annibale Carracci and Domenichino.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berretini)Italian (1597 - 1669)
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title:Landscape with Saint Mary Magdalen
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date created:About 1630
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:49.00 x 64.50 cm; Framed: 67.50 x 83.20 x 5.30 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1979
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accession number:NG 2378
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Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berretini)
Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berretini)
Painter, architect and designer, Pietro da Cortona was one of the key figures in the development and dissemination of the Baroque style in Italy. As a creator of grand, integrated decorative schemes, involving fresco, stucco-work and gilding, he was unrivalled, and he was also a highly original and...