Andrea Commodi (1560–1638)

• Commodi was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period.
• Born in Florence, but mostly active in Rome.
• He was a pupil of the painter Cigoli.
• He painted frescoes in the sacristy of San Carlo ai Catinari.
• In the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence there is a preparatory sketch "Fall of the Angels.
• This is a sketch for a fresco ordered by pope Paulus V Borghese for his palace of Montecavallo on the Quirinale in Rome, but the fresco was never executed.
• One of his pupils was a juvenile Pietro da Cortona.
• Another pupil was Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi.
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