Pietro da Cortona

1596–1669 · Italian

Born: 1596 · Cortona
Died: 1669 · Rome

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Pietro da Cortona was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. He was a key figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture and an important designer of interior decorations.

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Pietro da Cortona (Italian: [ˈpjɛːtro da (k)korˈtoːna]; 1 November 1596 or 1597 – 16 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 Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations. He was born Pietro Berrettini, but is primarily known by the name of his native town of Cortona in Tuscany. He worked mainly in Rome and Florence. He is best known for his frescoed ceilings, such as the vault of the salone or main salon of the Palazzo Barberini in Rome and carried out extensive painting and decorative schemes for the Medici family in Florence and for the Oratorian fathers at the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella in Rome. He also painted numerous canvases. Only a limited number of his architectural projects were built, but nonetheless they are as distinctive and as inventive as those of his rivals.

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Selected from 30 works by Pietro da Cortona in the Collect24 Registry.

Pietro da Cortona

Christ on the Cross with the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Saint John, about 1661

Pen and brown ink and gray wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on light brown paper, squared in black chalk; the oval only reinforced in red chalk

40.3 × 26.5 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-215978

Pietro da Cortona

Saint Cecilia Giving Alms to the Poor, about 1635–1640

Pen and brown ink over black chalk

24.6 × 40.5 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-213444

Pietro da Cortona

Cybele before the Council of the Gods, 1633

Pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white bodycolor, over black chalk, with the outlines indented with the stylus for transfer

19.5 × 14.4 cm

J. Paul Getty Museum

C24-210120

Pietro da Cortona

Bacchanal, mid-1600s

pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache; incised, framing lines in brown ink over traces of black chalk

26.3 × 43.5 cm

Cleveland Museum of Art

C24-208530