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| Mattia Preti Calling of Matthew ca. 1635-40 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Mattia Preti Game of Draughts ca. 1635 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Mattia Preti A Mother entrusting her Sons to Christ ca. 1635-36 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Mattia Preti St Peter paying the Tribute Money ca. 1635-36 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Mattia Preti Beheading of St John the Baptist ca. 1640 oil on canvas National Gallery of Ireland |
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| Mattia Preti Tobias healing his Father's Blindness ca. 1640 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
"Although Mattia Preti spent much of his life elsewhere, he is traditionally associated with the city of Naples. Together with Luca Giordano, Preti extended the reputation of Neapolitan painting throughout Italy and internationally. Originally from Calabria in southern Italy, Preti went to Rome in 1630, sharing a room with his brother Gregorio who had arrived about two years earlier. Gregorio may have been Mattia's principal teacher, although they both also studied at the Accademia di San Luca. While in Rome during the 1630s and 1640s, Preti achieved his first success. His easel paintings, particularly his early ones, are painted in the style of Caravaggio. His mature style, which reached its epitome in Naples from 1653 to 1660, is intensely dramatic, uniting a Caravaggesque realism and expressive chiaroscuro with the grandeur and theatricality of Venetian artists like Paolo Veronese and Tintoretto."
– from curator's notes from the Getty Museum
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| Mattia Preti Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1645 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Mattia Preti Plato and Diogenes 1649 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome |
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| Mattia Preti Clorinda rescues Olindo and Sophronia 1646 oil on canvas Musei di Strada Nuova, Genoa |
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| Mattia Preti Crucifixion of St Andrew ca. 1651 oil on canvas Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide |
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| Mattia Preti Martyrdom of St Paul ca. 1654-61 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Mattia Preti Martyrdom of St Peter ca. 1656-60 oil on canvas Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham |
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| Mattia Preti Erminia, Princess of Antioch ca. 1655-60 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Mattia Preti Marriage at Cana ca. 1655-60 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Mattia Preti Doubting Thomas ca. 1656-60 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |