Bernardino Mei

(1612/15 - 1676) worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family. Briefly a pupil of the Sienese draughtsman and cartographer Giuliano Periccioli, where he learned the art of engraving, Bernardino passed to the studio of the painter Rutilio Manetti and probably also served in the workshop of Francesco Rustici. He painted in and around Siena, where his work came to the attention of Cardinal Fabio Chigi, who, once elected pope as Alexander VII (1655), called Bernardino Mei to Rome in 1657. There Bernardino came under the influences of Mattia Preti, Andrea Sacchi and Pier Francesco Mola, and of Guercino, to the extent that until the 20th century Bernardino's fresco of Aurora in Palazzo Bianchi Bandinelli was attributed to Guercino himself. Through the fast friendship that bonded him to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whose studio he frequented, he applied that sculptor's sense of theatrical action to his own mythological and allegorical subjects. He died in Rome in 1676.
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Bernardino Mei David and Bathsheba oil


David and Bathsheba
Painting ID::  71352 		David and Bathsheba
17th century Oil on canvas
17th_century _ _Oil_on_canvas
   
   
     
Bernardino Mei Christ Cleansing the Temple oil


Christ Cleansing the Temple
Painting ID::  71353 		Christ Cleansing the Temple
c. 1655 Oil on canvas 41 x 55 1/2 in.
c._1655 _ Oil_on_canvas _ 41_x_55_1/2_in.
   
   
     
Bernardino Mei Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra oil


Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra
Painting ID::  71355 		Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra
Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra 1654(1654)
   
   
     
Bernardino Mei Caritas romana oil


Caritas romana
Painting ID::  71539 		Caritas romana
17th century Oil on canvas 98 x 131 cm
17th_century _ Oil_on_canvas _ _98_x_131_cm
   
   
     
Bernardino Mei David and Bathsheba oil


David and Bathsheba
Painting ID::  72452 		David and Bathsheba
Date 17th century Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions ? cm cyf
   
   
     
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     Bernardino Mei
     (1612/15 - 1676) worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family. Briefly a pupil of the Sienese draughtsman and cartographer Giuliano Periccioli, where he learned the art of engraving, Bernardino passed to the studio of the painter Rutilio Manetti and probably also served in the workshop of Francesco Rustici. He painted in and around Siena, where his work came to the attention of Cardinal Fabio Chigi, who, once elected pope as Alexander VII (1655), called Bernardino Mei to Rome in 1657. There Bernardino came under the influences of Mattia Preti, Andrea Sacchi and Pier Francesco Mola, and of Guercino, to the extent that until the 20th century Bernardino's fresco of Aurora in Palazzo Bianchi Bandinelli was attributed to Guercino himself. Through the fast friendship that bonded him to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whose studio he frequented, he applied that sculptor's sense of theatrical action to his own mythological and allegorical subjects. He died in Rome in 1676.

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