Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (1596–1669)
• Was an Italian Baroque painter and architect.
• His contemporaries and rivals were Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini.
• He was born Pietro Berrettini, but is primarily known by the name of his native town of Cortona in Tuscany.
• He worked mainly in Rome and Florence.
• He was elected as director of the Academy of St Luke the painter's guild in Rome, in 1634.
• Cortona was involved for decades in the decoration of the ceiling frescoes in the Oratorian Chiesa Nuova (Santa Maria in Vallicella) in Rome.
• Cortona employed or trained many prominent artists for example: Carlo Ascenzi, Lorenzo Berrettini (Cortona's nephew), Vincenzo Dandini, Luca Giordano, Giovanni Battista Langetti, Adriano Palladino, Pietro Paolo Baldini and Adriano Zabarelli.
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Pietro da Cortona, The Madonna and Child with Saint Martina, c. 1645
Original, The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX. Visited in 2020.
Pietro da Cortona, The Madonna and Child with Saint Martina, c. 1645
Pietro da Cortona, Homecoming of Hagar, around 1637
Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-2020.
Pietro da Cortona, Homecoming of Hagar, around 1637
Pietro da Cortona, Homecoming of Hagar, around 1637
Pietro da Cortona, The Alliance of Jacob and Laban, about 1630-1635
Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.
Pietro da Cortona, The Alliance of Jacob and Laban, about 1630-1635
