- Placido Costanzi
Placido Costanzi (1688-1759) was an Italian painter of the late-
Baroque period.He was born to a family of gem-makers in
Rome , where he became a pupil ofBenedetto Luti and painted mainly historical and devotional subjects. He painted a "St. Camillus" in Santa Maria Maddalena, in which he has aspired to the imitation ofDomenichino . His "Resuscitation of Tabitha" inSanta Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri replicates a mosaic inSt. Peter's Basilica . He also painted in fresco the ceilings of the tribunes inSanta Maria in Vallicella andSan Gregorio , and was much employed in painting figures in the landscapes of other artists, particularly in those ofJan Frans van Bloemen (Orizonte). Costanzi also traveled to France and Spain.Costanzi painted a portrait of
George Keith , Earl Mareschal of Scotland, in Rome in 1752, now in the National Portrait Gallery, and "St. Pancras & Infant Christ", now in the Dublin National Gallery.References
*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume I: A-K)| editor = Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 316| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1| authorlink=
* [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=691&page=1 Getty biography]
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