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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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PRETI, Mattia
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Vanity
Painting ID:: 28945
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PRETI, Mattia
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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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Oil on canvas
36 13/16x25 5/8in
Uffizi.
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Related Paintings::.
| The Naval Battle of Lepanto of 1571 waged by Don John of Austria. Don Juan of Austria in battle, at the bow of the ship, | Saturnalia | Solitude, watching the horizon at sun set, in the hopes of seeing a vessel, Tristan de Acunha | |
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