Pietro da Cortona
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Pietro da Cortona (born November 1, 1596 as Pietro Berrettini in Cortona , † May 16, 1669 in Rome ) was an important builder and painter of the Roman high baroque . He was also an anatomist .
Life
Around 1612 Pietro da Cortona moved to Rome with his teacher, the painter Andrea Commodi (1560–1638). Cortona's achievements in architecture and painting are equally important. In painting, he made a significant contribution to the development of the monumental illusionistic ceiling fresco , especially by painting the ballroom in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome (1633–1639) . As an architect, alongside Bernini and Borromini, he was one of the three most important programmers of the Roman high baroque.
While his early style is still characterized by mannerist abundance of forms, his late style takes on clearly more classical traits. His work in the Palazzo Pitti is particularly important for the art of decoration . They influenced, for example, Schlüter's decorative designs for the Berlin Palace .
He is also known for anatomical drawings made between 1615 and 1620 (after dissections in Hospital Santo Spirito in Rome). For example, they show a woman presenting her sliced abdomen in front of a classical column background. Other figures are presented in postures and gaze as if they were still alive, sometimes they hold a board with further anatomical details from inside. They were not published until 1741 ( Tabulae anatomicae ).
Works
buildings
- San Carlo al Corso (SS. Ambrogio e Carlo), Rome, 1612–1684
- Villa del Pigneto, Italy, 1626–1636
- Santi Luca e Martina , Rome, 1634-1650
- Santa Maria della Pace , Rome, 1656-1657
- Santa Maria in Via Lata , Rome, 1658–1663
- Designs for the Louvre , 1664
painting
- Fame of the Barberini , ceiling fresco in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, 1632–1639
- Stoning of St. Stephen . 1660
- Rape of the Sabine Women , Ln, Rome, Pinacoteca Capitolina
- Marcello Borghese , Rome, Galleria Borghese
- Four scenes from the life of David , Rome, Vatican Museums
- St. Charles Borromeo carrying a nail from the cross of Christ , Rome, San Carlo ai Catinari
reception
After 1850, the genre painter Max Michael , who had lived in Rome for 20 years and was appointed professor to Berlin in 1875, painted his picture Pietro da Cortona paints an altarpiece in a monastery .
literature
- Susanne Kunz-Saponaro: Rome and its artists. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-534-17678-6 , p. 57 ff.
- Jörg Martin Merz: Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture. Yale University Press, New Haven (Conn.) / London 2008, ISBN 0300111231
- Salomon Wininger : Große Jüdische National-Biographie , 1925-1936, reprint 1979, pp. 381-382.
- The Anatomical Plates of Pietro Da Cortona: 27 Baroque Masterpieces. With a New Introduction by Jeremy M. Norman, Dover 1986.
Web links
- Literature by and about Pietro da Cortona in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cortona, Pietro there |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Berrettini, Pietro; among others |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Builder and painter of the programmatic, Roman high baroque |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1, 1596 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cortona |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1669 |
| Place of death | Rome |