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unusual facts about Pietro da Cortona, ''Saint Martina Refuses to Adore the Idols'', oil on canvas, 104 x 86 cm, Princeton University Art Museum



Crown of Immortality

The first use of the crown of stars as an allegorical Crown of Immortality may be the ceiling fresco, Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power (1633–39), in the Palazzo Barberini in Rome by Pietro da Cortona.

Guido Reni

Reni in this painting allies himself more with the sterner Cavaliere d'Arpino, Lanfranco, and Albani "School" of mytho-historic painting, and less with the more crowded frescoes characteristic of Pietro da Cortona.

Guillaume Courtois

He arrived in Rome by 1638, and entered the studio of Pietro da Cortona, supplementing his training by drawing from life and copying works of Giovanni Lanfranco and Andrea Sacchi.

Italian Baroque architecture

The same emphasis on plasticity, continuity and dramatic effects is evident in the work of Pietro da Cortona, illustrated by San Luca e Santa Martina (1635) and Santa Maria della Pace (1656).

Johann Jakob Frey the Elder

Charles Borromeo interceding for the Plague-stricken; after Pietro da Cortona.

José García Hidalgo

Pietro da Cortona, Salvator Rosa, and Carlo Maratti assisted him with their counsels; but the climate of Italy proving detrimental to his health, he returned to Spain, where he attached himself to Carreño, and, though far advanced in the art, worked as a young pupil.

Oil on Canvas

(The name of Barbieri's track is taken from the novel The Temple of Dawn by the acclaimed Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima.)

Onofrio Gabrieli

He then moved to Rome, where he worked in the studios of Nicolas Poussin and Pietro da Cortona.

Pietro da Cortona

Sacchi's position would be reinforced in future years by Nicolas Poussin.

Rain Tree Crow

It was the first time all four members of the band, David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn and Richard Barbieri, collaborated on a project since the compilation of the 1983 live album Oil on Canvas.

The Very Best of Japan

The album was accompanied by a DVD release, which includes seven promo videos as well as the Oil on Canvas concert recorded in 1982.

Ursulines of Quebec

Through him were procured the valuable paintings by Philippe de Champaigne, Charles Le Brun, Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont, Pietro da Cortona and others, that adorn the chapel.

Via del Corso

Around the same time, the leading painter of the time, Pietro da Cortona, developed a design for a ‘fountain palace’ in the piazza, a palace with a large fountain at the base of the façade, but this precursor of the Trevi Fountain was not built.


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