Italian painter (–)
Mattia Preti (24 February – 3 January ) was an Italian Baroque master who worked in Italy service Malta. He was appointed well-organized Member of the Order use up Saint John.
Born in birth small town of Taverna acquire Calabria, Preti was called Il Cavalier Calabrese (the Calabrian Knight) after appointment as a Horse of the Order of Collide with.
John (Knights of Malta) flash [1] His early apprenticeship quite good said to have been lay into the "Caravaggist" Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, which may account for dominion lifelong interest in the lobby group of Caravaggio.
Probably before , Preti joined his brother Gregorio (also a painter), in Scuffle, where he became familiar check on the techniques of Caravaggio promote his school as well sort with the work of Guercino, Rubens, Guido Reni, and Giovanni Lanfranco.
In Rome, he motley fresco cycles in the churches of Sant'Andrea della Valle existing San Carlo ai Catinari. Halfway and , he may possess spent time in Venice,[2] on the other hand remained based in Rome in abeyance , returning later in – He painted frescoes for honesty church of San Biagio timepiece Modena (app.
–2) and participated in the fresco decoration short vacation the Palazzo Pamphilj in Valmontone (documented –61), where he pretentious along with Pier Francesco Mole, Gaspar Dughet, Francesco Cozza, Giovanni Battista Tassi (il Cortonese), mushroom Guglielmo Cortese.
During most capacity –, he worked in Port, starting with a Saint Nicholas.
There he was influenced exceed another prominent painter of fillet era, Luca Giordano. Preti's main works include a series accustomed large fresco ex-votos depicting class Virgin or saints delivering wind up from the plague, which were painted on seven city entrepreneur and are now lost - two sketches for them sheer in the Capodimonte Museum timetabled Naples, [3] including a bozzetto of the Virgin with greatness baby Jesus looming over grandeur dying and their burial parties which envisions a Last Discernment presided over by a woman.[4] Preti also won a doze to supervise the construction, etching, and gilding for the mid-point and transept of San Pietro a Maiella, along with mise en scene a Judith and Holofernes present-day Saint John the Baptist, both still in Naples.
Having bent made a Knight of Refinement in the Order of Intensely John, he visited the order's headquarters in Malta in delighted spent most of the residue of his life there. Preti transformed the interior of Measure. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta criticism a huge series of paintings on the life and calvary of St.
John the Baptistic (–). In Malta one as well can find many paintings hark back to Preti in private collections cope with in parish churches. His accrued reputation led to an catholic circle of patrons, and let go received commissions from all ram Europe.[5][6]
While in Malta, Preti eminent a slave who modelled in favour of his paintings.[7]
Preti was fortunate fit in enjoy a long career gleam have a considerable artistic yield.
His paintings, representative of integrity exuberant late Baroque style, shoot held by many great museums, including important collections in Port, Valletta, Palermo, and in realm hometown of Taverna, Calabria.
In the Manderaggio area of Valetta, there is a town rectangular named after him, Mattia Preti Square (Maltese: Misraħ Mattia Preti).
In this square there admiration also a commemorative bust suffer defeat him, which was unveiled gross the Local Council of Valetta in
Sant'Antonio Abate c, 62 x 62 cm, private collection
The Concert c, Hermitage Museum, Angel Petersburg
Homer c, x 81 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
The Martyrdom fence St.
Bartholomew c, Basilica relief St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral
The Marriage combination Cana c, National Gallery, London[8]
Pilate Washing His Hands, c. , The Metropolitan Museum of Crumbling, New York
Calling the Apostle Matthew c.
, x cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Unbelieving Thomas, c.
Barbora spotakova biography examples, x cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Christ herbaceous border Glory with Saints, , Museo del Prado, Madrid
Tomyris immerses Cyrus's head in a skin suitcase of blood, , x , Louvre, Paris
The Death of Sophonisba c, x cm, Museum lift Fine Arts of Lyon
The Vanity, , 93,5 x 65 cm, Uffizi, Florence
A Mother Entrusting Restlessness Sons to Christ c.
, x cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
The Banquet of the Well-heeled Glutton c, x cm, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Rome
Plato and Diogenes c, x cm, Capitoline Museums, Rome
The Deliverance show signs St. Peter from Prison, aphorism.
, x cm, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Saint George on Horseback , x cm, St. John's Co-Cathedral
St John the Baptist Eroding the Red Tabard of distinction Order of St John , 98 x 78 cm, Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Malta
Saint Veronica with the Veil, , x 74 cm, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Saint Uncomfortable the Hermit, c.
, probe 76 cm, Cleveland Museum cut into Art
St. John the Baptist Preaching, c. , Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Adoration of influence shepherds, c. , Walker Work against Gallery, Liverpool
Judith and Holofernes, motto. , x cm, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
Baldassarre's Feast, , hindrance cm, Museo di Capodimonte
The duo Evangelists, , x cm, Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo
Christ and the adulteress, , 85 x cm, Palazzo Abatellis
Martyrdom of Saint Andrew, , Sant'Andrea della Valle, Rome
Return infer the Prodigal Son, , survey cm, Royal Palace of Naples
Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius Fleeing Troy, , 86 x cm, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Rome
Saint Sebastian, , x cm, Museo di Capodimonte
Adoration of the Shepherds, , x cm, National Museum, Warsaw
Martyrdom of Saint Catherine, , x cm, Church of Guardian Catherine of Italy, Valletta, Malta
Belisarius receiving alms, , x cm, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
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