Pietro da Cortona
Britishnoun
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Rome was not just a boneyard of suggestive antiques; it was full of living art whose plasticity, color and narrative richness surpassed anything he could see in France -- Caravaggio, Pietro da Cortona, the Carracci.
From Time Magazine Archive
It contains a picture of the Nativity, by Pietro da Cortona, and a modern work of Gagliardi, representing S. Emidio, S. Nicolo da Tolentino, and S. Giacomo della Marina, the three protectors of Ancona.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
A little later in date than the early part of the Louvre was the Hôtel de Ville, built from the designs of Pietro da Cortona, an Italian, and said to have been begun in 1549.
From Architecture Gothic and Renaissance by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)
He had a son named Giambatista, whom he instructed in both these arts; though he was desirous that he should acquire a more perfect knowledge of them under Pietro da Cortona at Rome.
From The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. IV (of 6) from the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Lanzi, Luigi Antonio
Pietro da Cortona erected at his own cost, the chapel of Sta.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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