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 Gentileschi (1563–1639) – an intimate realist prone to rowdiness
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
Stefano Maderno (c. 1570–1636) – an artist famous for just one statue
Trophime Bigot (1597–1650) – a mysterious master of candlelight
Giovanni Baglioni’s Heavenly Love and Earthly Love – a virtue in the struggle against sin
These were the best of times when art was talked about without end. Times when the composition, color scheme, but especially the mysterious, ambiguous message of a painting was something to get excited about. A painting became an object of intellectual disputes and a true stimulus for spiritual pleasures. This was noticed by art patrons and collectors from the beginning of the Seicento period – a time of increased interest in works dedicated to private contemplation. And they had a lot to choose from since at that time Rome became home to thousands of artists coming into the city f...
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Artemisia Gentileschi’s Saint Cecilia Playing the Lute – an autoportrait in the guise of a saint
A young woman in a beautiful dress is playing the lute, looking up, as if she was searching for inspiration. She could be one of the courtiers at the duke’s court making the time more enjoyable for both residents and guests, and if it had not been for the title of the painting we would not have thought that it depicts a saint. The artwork was painted by Artemisia Gentileschi “the only woman in Italy”, who had ever known what painting, color, impasto, and similar things mean”. This is what was claimed by the great expert of Baroque art, Roberto Longhi in his essay from 1...
See moreGerrit (Gerard) van Honthorst (1590–1656) – a restrained nocturnal painter
The turn of the XVI and XVII centuries in the Netherlands was a period of social unrest and religious struggles. In Utrecht, ruled by the Protestant, yet liberal elite, the artist was part of the Catholic minority. He learned his trade at the workshop of the famous Abraham Bloemaert. From among the forty-eight painters active in Utrecht at that time, twenty-five went to Italy. Van Honthorst did likewise. During several years he obtained valuable commissions for large-format works designated for churches and captured the minds and hearts of private collectors. His rapid career was a shock, even...
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