Artists
Alessandro Algardi (1598–1654) – unappreciated master of the Baroque art
Andrea Pozzo (1642–1709) – a master of painting illusion
Andrea Sansovino (approx. 1467–1529) – the one who was able to bring the dead back to life
Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) – a straightforward recluse in the world of Roman splendor
Antiveduto Grammatica (1571–1626) – an expert on heads with an extraordinary name
Antoniazzo Romano (1430? – 1512?) – an outstanding imitator of great masters
Antonio Canova (1757–1822) – praised by his contemporaries, disregarded by later generations
Antonio Raggi (1624–1686) – a second pair of hands for master Bernini
Armando Brasini (1879–1965) – creator of a bombastically draped architecture
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653) – an unwomanly painter, humiliated and forgotten for centuries
Baciccio (1639–1709) – the creator of heaven and hell on Earth
Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511–1592) – the beginnings of an outstanding career of a great Italian Mannerist
Bronzino (1503–1572) – subtle, refined, and mysterious
Camillo Rusconi (1658–1728) – a little known genius of the turn of the centuries
Caravaggio (1571–1610) - a subtle interpreter of the Bible and a common criminal
Carlo Maderno (1556–1629) – a sought-after, hard-working and talented architect
Carlo Maratti (Maratta) (1625–1713) – an outstanding portraitist and a father of an equally outstanding daughter
Carlo Rainaldi (1611–1691) – an architect with a love for music
Carlo Saraceni (1579–1620) – an artist somewhere between verismo and idealism
Cosimo Fancelli (1618–1688), a great, but second-tier master of the Roman Baroque
Daniele da Volterra (1509–1566) – sentenced to many years of ridicule
Dirck van Baburen (approx. 1592/93–1624) – a short, intense life of a Caravaggionist from the North
Domenichino (1581–1641), the Roman rise and Neapolitan fall of little Dominic
Domenico Fontana (1543–1607) – an exceptional architect of an entrepreneurial pope
Domenico Guidi (1625–1701) – meaning Bernini in the French style
Donato Bramante (1444 –1514) – a famous wrecker, who changed the face of Rome
Ercole Ferrata (1610–1686) – an imitator of extraordinary talent
Francesco Borromini (1599–1667) – a distrustful melancholic and an extravagant architect
Francesco Cavallini (1640–1703) – a sculptor of garlands and swaying saints
Francesco Mochi (1580–1654) – ousted, forgotten, disconsolate
Gerrit (Gerard) van Honthorst (1590–1656) – a restrained nocturnal painter
Giacomo della Porta (1533–1602), an author of Roman fountains and the most famous façade in the history of art
Giovanni (Gian) Lorenzo Bernini (1599–1680) – Impulsive, arrogant and ingenious favorite of the popes
Giovanni Battista Maini (1690–1752) – elegance of late Baroque
Giovanni Lanfranco (1582–1647) – painter of the Church triumphant
Giuliano Finelli (1602–1653) – a sculptor of lace, leaves and collars, but also more
Giuseppe Cesari (1568–1640) – in the past popular, today a forgotten favorite of the popes
Guercino (1591–1666) – short career of the Pope’s chosen one in Rome
Guido Reni (1575–1642) – a gambler with subtle manners
Jacopo Sansovino (1486–1570) – unappreciated in Rome, famous in Venice
Luigi Moretti (1907–1973) – a rationalist, Fascist and postmodern architect
Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960) – praised and criticized creator of Fascist Rome
Melozzo da Forlì (1438–1494) – the one who introduced the delicate touch of Renaissance to Rome
Michelangelo (1475–1564), a painter by force – divine, yet miserable
Onorio Longhi (1568–1619) – a vagabond architect
Orazio Borgianni (1574–1616) – a melancholic with intellectual ambitions and an explosive character
Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639) – an intimate realist prone to rowdiness
Pierre Le Gros (1666–1719) – the dramatically halted magnificent Roman career
Pietro Bracci (1700–1773) – a master of elegance and theatrical gestures
Pietro da Cortona (1596–1669) – a virtuoso of glories, triumphs and apotheoses of all kinds
Pinturicchio (1454–1513) – a creator of a simple, filled with grace storylines
Raphael (1483–1520) – the prematurely deceased genius of the Renaissance
Simon Vouet (1590–1649) – the panache, flair, and richness of the Baroque
Stefano Maderno (c. 1570–1636) – an artist famous for just one statue
Trophime Bigot (1597–1650) – a mysterious master of candlelight
Sleeping Hermaphrodite – the ever-present third gender
The figure of the Hermaphrodite stimulated the imagination of the people of Antiquity in a particular way. A being of two genders – both female and male – seemed privileged exceptional, and completely ideal, however, it also aroused ambivalent feelings and suspicion. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that a figure with male genitalia and female breasts garnered a lot of attention both in literature as well as in the visual arts. When it comes to the latter, the favored topic (although not the only one), was a sleeping Hermaphrodite. This is how he is depicted, stretched on b...
See moreSimon Vouet’s Herodias with the Head of St. John the Baptist – femme fatale of the Baroque
Femme fatale is associated with painting and literature of the XIX century – with women who devoured the hearts of men, cold-blooded demons of sex who with premeditation led men to their downfall. However, beautiful, erotic, attractive, but at the same time ruthless and sophisticated women have always fascinated artists. We can find them in ancient literature and mythology, as well as in the Old and New Testaments. We can also see them in the painting creations of Caravaggio and his successors because it was exactly in the XVII century when Salome, Judith, and Herodias became fashionable...
See moreSpada Chapel – ancestors, meaning capital which cannot be underestimated
Numerous posthumous chapels, which we can see during a pilgrimage through Roman churches are generally filled with decorations and works of art. They arouse our respect, and approval, and let our thoughts linger on the grandeur and significance of the family, but above all their sense of art. It is quite seldom that we think about them in purely practical categories, not to say mercantile. It is a rare situation indeed that we can say that the main motive of their creation was not only the desire to immortalize one’s fame, but also the prestige of future, yet unborn successors of the fam...
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