Giovanni Battista Passeri (painter)

Engraving depicting Giovanni Battista Passeri by Johann Jacob Haid .

Giovanni Battista Passeri (* around 1610 in Rome ; † April 22, 1679 ibid) was an Italian painter and art writer of the Baroque era in Rome.

Life

Passeri was a student at the Jesuit College Romano , where he probably also acquired basic artistic skills. In 1634 he restored frescoes in the chapel of Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati together with Domenichino's student Giovanni Angelo Canini . Passeri may have been a pupil of Domenichino himself. In 1661 he painted frescoes in Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj together with the Flemish Frans de Neve (1606–1688) and his assistant Francesco Pintinello . In 1638 he became a member of the Accademia di San Luca and in 1641 of the Congregazione Virtuosi al Pantheon, of which he became treasurer in 1663. In 1676 Passeri was ordained a priest in Santa Maria in Via Lata . In addition to his work as a fresco painter, portraits, genre paintings and still lifes have survived. One of his pupils was his nephew Giuseppe Passeri (1654–1714).

More important than his artistic work was Giovanni Battista Passeri's handwritten collection of artist biographies, which even today gives researchers an insight into the life of Roman artists from the period 1641 to 1673. The work was not published until 1772.

Works

• National Gallery of Ireland ( Dublin ) panel painting Musical Garden Festival ( lib.utexas.edu )
• Kunsthandel- Dorotheum ( Vienna ) Auction October 6, 2009 Lot 146: Panel "Portrait of a Musician"
• Sequence of graphics for the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631
• Vite dei pittori, scultori ed architetti che anno lavorato in Roma morti dal 1641 al 1673. Rome 1772 ( archive.org or uni-heidelberg.de ).
  • Life of painters, sculptors and builders who worked in Rome and died between the years 1641–1673. Translated from the Italian, Breitkopfischen Buchhandlung, Dresden / Leipzig, 1786 ( urn : nbn: de: gbv: wim2-g-3426107 - Weimar University Library );
  • Jacob Hess : The artist biographies of Giovanni Battista Passeri (= Roman research of the Bibliotheca Hertziana. 11). Leipzig, Vienna 1934 (reprint Werner, Worms 1995, ISBN 3-88462-120-3 ).

literature

• Passeri, Giovanni Battista . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 282 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Giovanni Battista Passeri (painter) in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Giovanni Battista Passeri at arthistoricum.net - digitized works in the themed portal "History of Art History"