- Giacinto Brandi
Giacinto Brandi (1621 –
19 January 1691 ) was an Italian painter of theBaroque era, active mainly inRome andNaples .Born in Poli, in the
Lazio , he was trained in Rome in the studio ofAlessandro Algardi , a noted sculptor, who noted that Brandi was more suited to painting. He joined the studio ofGiovanni Giacomo Sementi . He traveled to Naples from 1638, and by 1647 had returned to Rome to work underGiovanni Lanfranco , where Brandi befriendedMattia Preti . The two latter artists would often collaborate.His works are well distributed among baroque
Churches of Rome includingSan Carlo al Corso ceilingfresco es (1670-1671),San Silvestro in Capite ,Sant'Andrea al Quirinale , a canvas of "Sant'Andrea" (1650) inSanta Maria in Via Lata , a painting of "Martyrdom of the Forty" (1660) for theChiesa delle Santissima Stimmate di San Francesco , a "Coronation of the Virgin" (1680) for the church ofGesu e Maria , a canvas of the "Drunkedness of Noah" in the Galleria Corsini, an "Assumption" (1655) forSanta Maria in Organo inVerona , a fresco fromOvid 's Metamorphosis (1651-1653) forPalazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona, and a "Martyrdom of San Biagio" forSan Carlo ai Catinari . In 1647, he joined theCongregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon in Rome and from 1651 was inducted into theAccademia di San Luca for painters. In 1663, he frescoed the life of Saint Erasmus for thecrypt of the catherdral of Gaeta. Some of his works are in Milan, Toledo, and Zaragoza.References
* [http://www.artnet.com/library/01/0109/T010907.asp| Grove encyclopedia entry on Artnet]
* [http://www.wga.hu/bio/b/brandi/biograph.html| Web Gallery of Art biography]
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