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.

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Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berretini)

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berretini)