Giuseppe Passeri

Giuseppe Passeri (born March 12, 1654 in Rome , † November 2, 1714 in Rome) was an Italian architect, church painter and portraitist of the classicist Baroque in Rome.

Giuseppe was the nephew and pupil of the painter and art writer Giovanni Battista Passeri . Later he went to Carlo Maratta's workshop , where he became his preferred student and workshop successor. On September 20, 1693, Passeri became a member of the Accademia di San Luca and in 1701 of the Congregazione Virtuosi al Pantheon. He created altarpieces and frescoes in the style of the Roman classical baroque for numerous churches in Rome. Outside Rome, Passeri was the creator of the choir frescoes in Viterbo's cathedral in 1685 and worked for the San Antonio Confraternita in Pesaro . As an architect, he was involved in the renovation of the Chiesa Santa Barbara alla Regola dei librai in Rome in 1680 , and he designed the facade.

Works

Paintings in Roman churches

San Sebastiano alle Catacombe or fuori le mura -Cappella di San Fabiano: San Fabiano blesses Emperor Philip
Santa Maria Maggiore : panel painting
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme : Altarpiece of the incredulous Thomas (1675)
Santa Maria in Aracoeli : Wall fresco on the inner facade of Evangelist Luke and Death and Assumption of Mary (1686/88)
San Francesco a Ripa : Altarpiece of Saint Catherine of Siena
Santa Maria in Portico Campitelli : ceiling fresco
Santa Maria in Vallicella : frescoes in the upper storey giving the keys to Peter and Moses breaks the tablets
Spirito Santo dei Napoletano : Trinity with angels and saints (1707)
San Giacomo in Augusta : Several panels in the side chapels
Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli : panel paintings three archangels and scenes from life
San Tommaso in Parione : interior decoration and altarpiece Annunciation

Paintings in museums (selection)

Galleria Doria-Pamphilj (Rome): St. John's Sermon Inv. No. 425
Kunsthalle Bremen : Panel portrait of Effigies Sisini Poli Inv. No. 485-1938 / 7
Musée du Louvre ( Paris ): Armida and Rinaldo (1685–90) and the Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Galleria degli Uffizi , Corridoio Vasariano : self-portrait
The Fitzwilliam Museum ( Cambridge ): Visions of Saint Filippo Neri (around 1700)
The Walters Art Museum ( Baltimore , Maryland): Expulsion of the money changers from the temple (1712/14)
Universalmuseum Joanneum ( Graz ): Maria in der Glorie

Drawings (selection)

Museum Kunstpalast , Düsseldorf: more than 1400 drawings
Art Institute of Chicago Saint Augustine with two angels before the crucified
Musée du Louvre ( Pari ) 86 drawings
Metropolitan Museum of Art ( New York ) 7 drawings
The Royal Collection (Windsor Castle): Christ drives the money changers out of the temple
The Courtauld Institute of Art ( London ) 8 drawings
Albertina (Vienna) 3 drawings

literature

Giuseppe Passeri 1654–1714 in his time. Baroque drawings and oil studies. Exhibition catalog Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 1995.
Dieter Graf: Giuseppe Passeri as copyist. In: Victoria v. Flemming and Sebastian Schütze (eds.): Ars naturam adiuvan. Festschrift for Matthias Winner on March 11, 1996. P. von Zabern, Mainz am Rhein 1996, ISBN 3-8053-1908-8 , pp. 529-547.
Passeri, Giuseppe . 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 .
Catalog of the paintings from the 14th to the 18th century in the Kunsthalle Bremen. 1990, ISBN 3-926598-39-5 , p. 245.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Dieter Graf: The hand drawings of Giuseppe Passeri . Ed .: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the courtyard of honor. Düsseldorf 1995, p. 403 .

personal data
SURNAME	Passeri, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian architect, church painter and portraitist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 12, 1654
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rome
DATE OF DEATH	November 2, 1714
Place of death	Rome

[1] Dieter Graf: The hand drawings of Giuseppe Passeri . Ed .: Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the courtyard of honor. Düsseldorf 1995, p. 403 .