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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:: 21540
The Tribute Money (mk08)
c.1640
Oil on canvas,
193x143cm
Milan,Pinacoteca di Brera
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Painting ID:: 28945
Vanity
mk65
Oil on canvas
36 13/16x25 5/8in
Uffizi.
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Painting ID:: 33585
The Tribute Money
mk86
c.1640
Oil on canvas
193x143cm
Milan,Pinacoteca di Brera
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Painting ID:: 52457
St John Cast into Prison
1661 Ceiling fresco Conventual Church of St. John
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Painting ID:: 63050
The Baptism of Christ
1661 Ceiling fresco Conventual Church of St. John, Valletta, Malta Artist: PRETI, Mattia Painting Title: The Baptism of Christ , 1651-1700 Painting Style: Italian , , religious
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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: | Julius L.Stewart | ZUCCHI, Jacopo | Giuseppe Simonelli | Gavin Hamilton | Charles S. Dorion |
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