Cavalier Pietro Tempesta (1637 – 1701)
• He was also known as Pieter Mulier II.
• Was a Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy.
• Muller was born in Haarlem.
• He learned to paint from his father, Pieter de Molijn, not Pieter Mulier.
• Cavaliera travelled to Italy, working in Rome, Genoa and northern Italy.
• He became a member of the Bentvueghels with the nickname Tempeest.
• Among his pupils were Carlo Antonio Tavella and Pietro Cignaroli.
• He is known for Italianate landscapes in the manner of Thomas Wijck.
• In Genoa he was imprisoned for 16 years for killing his wife.
• He was visited in prison by Jan Visser, a painter from the Bentvueghels known as Slempop.
• When the French bombarded the city in 1684, he was set free and fled to Parma.
• In Parma he lived to old age, painting with two eyeglasses, one in front of the other.
