Artists

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  The Stoning of St Stephen $AU 248.09 ~ 3,259.68
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  The Guardian Angel $AU 256.61 ~ 2,731.45
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  Romulus and Remus Given Shelter by Faustulus $AU 297.80 ~ 5,483.51
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  The Rape of the Sabine Women $AU 259.68 ~ 9,678.46
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  Venus as Huntress Appears to Aeneas $AU 268.12 ~ 1,949.93

Pietro da Cortona (1596 Cortona-1669 Rome), born Pietro Berrettini, was first a pupil of the Florentine painter Andrea Commodi, and then worked from 1613 in Rome with Baccio Ciarpi. About 1620 his patron, the Marquis Marcello Sacchetti, recommended him to the Barberinis. Between 1634 and 1638, da Cortona was a member of the directing committee of the Academia de San Luca in Rome. From 1640-1647 he worked in Florence, and afterward again took up residence in Rome. Da Cortona, who also authored a treatise on art, is equally important as a painter and an architect His light-flooded and movement-filled frescoes, including those in the Piano Nobile of Florence's Palazzo Pitti, (1640-1647) spurred the development of High Baroque ceiling painting throughout Italy. Other major works include The Annunciation, 1665, S. Francesco, Cortona; and The Pleading Procession of St. Charles Borromeo on the Occasion of the Plague in 1576, 1667, S. Carlo ai Catinari, Rome.