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Pietro da Cortona

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/ ˈpjɛːtro da korˈtoːna /

noun

  1. real name Pietro Berrettini. 1596–1669, Italian baroque painter and architect

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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

He went at once to Rome, and entered the school of Pietro da Cortona.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various

I think it is so represented in a large picture at Hampton Court, by Pietro da Cortona.

From Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

His father afterwards took him to Rome, to study under Pietro da Cortona.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

There is also a picture dealing with it at Hampton Court, by Pietro da Cortona.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward