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Andrea Pozzo (1642–1709) – a master of painting illusion

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Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) – a straightforward recluse in the world of Roman splendor

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Antiveduto Grammatica (1571–1626) – an expert on heads with an extraordinary name

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Antoniazzo Romano (1430? – 1512?) – an outstanding imitator of great masters

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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653) – an unwomanly painter, humiliated and forgotten for centuries

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Baciccio (1639–1709) – the creator of heaven and hell on Earth

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Bronzino (1503–1572) – subtle, refined, and mysterious

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Caravaggio (1571–1610) - a subtle interpreter of the Bible and a common criminal

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Carlo Maratti (Maratta) (1625–1713) – an outstanding portraitist and a father of an equally outstanding daughter

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Carlo Saraceni (1579–1620) – an artist somewhere between verismo and idealism

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Daniele da Volterra (1509–1566) – sentenced to many years of ridicule

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Dirck van Baburen (approx. 1592/93–1624) – a short, intense life of a Caravaggionist from the North

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Domenichino (1581–1641), the Roman rise and Neapolitan fall of little Dominic

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Gerrit (Gerard) van Honthorst (1590–1656) – a restrained nocturnal painter

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Giovanni Lanfranco (1582–1647) – painter of the Church triumphant

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Giuseppe Cesari (1568–1640) – in the past popular, today a forgotten favorite of the popes

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Guercino (1591–1666) – short career of the Pope’s chosen one in Rome

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Guido Reni (1575–1642) – a gambler with subtle manners

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Melozzo da Forlì (1438–1494) – the one who introduced the delicate touch of Renaissance to Rome

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Orazio Borgianni (1574–1616) – a melancholic with intellectual ambitions and an explosive character

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Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639) – an intimate realist prone to rowdiness

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Pietro da Cortona (1596–1669) – a virtuoso of glories, triumphs and apotheoses of all kinds

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Pinturicchio (1454–1513) – a creator of a simple, filled with grace storylines

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Raphael (1483–1520) – the prematurely deceased genius of the Renaissance

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Simon Vouet (1590–1649) – the panache, flair, and richness of the Baroque

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Trophime Bigot (1597–1650) – a mysterious master of candlelight