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PRETI, Mattia
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1613-1699
Italian painter and draughtsman. Although he was trained and had his first success as a painter in Rome during the 1630s and 1640s, he is traditionally associated with the Neapolitan school. It was in Naples between 1653 and 1660 that he made his most lasting mark (see fig. 1), contributing to the evolution of the exuberant late Baroque style and providing an important source of inspiration to later generations of painters, notably to Francesco Solimena. From 1661 he was based in Malta, where his most substantial undertaking was the decoration of St John's, Valletta. Preti's mature style is intensely dramatic and unites a Caravaggesque realism and expressive chiaroscuro with the grandeur and theatricality of Venetian High Renaissance painting.
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Painting ID:: 8666
Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius Fleeing Troy a
1630s
Oil on canvas, 86 x 153 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
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Painting ID:: 8667
Beheading of St. Catherine ag
Oil on canvas
National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta
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Painting ID:: 8668
Christ in Glory afg
c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 220 x 253 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Painting ID:: 8669
Concert ilyu
1630s
Oil on canvas, 110 x 147 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Painting ID:: 8670
Concert (detail) sag
1630s
Oil on canvas
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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PRETI, Mattia
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1613-1699
Italian painter and draughtsman. Although he was trained and had his first success as a painter in Rome during the 1630s and 1640s, he is traditionally associated with the Neapolitan school. It was in Naples between 1653 and 1660 that he made his most lasting mark (see fig. 1), contributing to the evolution of the exuberant late Baroque style and providing an important source of inspiration to later generations of painters, notably to Francesco Solimena. From 1661 he was based in Malta, where his most substantial undertaking was the decoration of St John's, Valletta. Preti's mature style is intensely dramatic and unites a Caravaggesque realism and expressive chiaroscuro with the grandeur and theatricality of Venetian High Renaissance painting.
. Related Artists to PRETI, Mattia: | Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier | Petrie, George | Francois Pascal Simon Gerard | John Wolcott Adams | Konrad Krzyzanowski |
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