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Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius Fleeing Troy a Painting ID:: 8666
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PRETI, Mattia 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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Beheading of St. Catherine ag Painting ID:: 8667
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PRETI, Mattia Beheading of St. Catherine ag Oil on canvas
National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta
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Christ in Glory afg Painting ID:: 8668
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PRETI, Mattia Christ in Glory afg c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 220 x 253 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
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Concert ilyu Painting ID:: 8669
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PRETI, Mattia Concert ilyu 1630s
Oil on canvas, 110 x 147 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Concert (detail) sag Painting ID:: 8670
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PRETI, Mattia Concert (detail) sag 1630s
Oil on canvas
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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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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