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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Bathsheba Bathing ca. 1700 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Susanna and the Elders ca. 1700-1727 oil on canvas Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Angel offering the Christ Child the Emblems of the Passion) before 1727 oil on canvas National Trust, Calke Abbey, Derbyshire |
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Angel offering the Christ Child the Emblems of the Passion) ca. 1720 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
"Giuseppe Chiari was born in Rome in 1654, the son of a native Florentine; beginning in 1661 he became a student of Carlo Maratti, whom he diligently copied. His successful debut in S. Maria del Suffragio brought him further commissions, both from Roman patrons and from foreigners visiting Rome, among whom the English began to assume an important role toward the end of the 17th century. Chiari hardly ever left Rome. He worked tirelessly in his Marratiesque style and, despite his weak physical constitution, lived to a ripe old age, dying in Rome in 1727. He was perhaps the most faithful of Maratti's pupils. He relates to his master in a manner similar to the relationship of Ciro Ferri to Pietro da Cortona. The highest renown of both painters lies in the the fact that their best works may be confused with those of their own masters. What otherwise distinguishes Chiari's style is the weak and dull quality of his colors and the exaggerated use of broken and iridescent tones."
– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Angels in Glory before 1727 fresco Chiesa di Sant' Andrea al Quirinale, Rome |
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari The Muse Euterpe ca. 1720 oil on canvas Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Hagar and the Angel 1705 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Birth of the Virgin after 1682 oil on canvas National Trust, Belton House, Grantham, Lincolnshire |
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| attributed to Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Virgin showing the Cross to the Christ Child before 1727 oil on canvas National Trust, Calke Abbey, Derbyshire |
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Virgin of Sorrows 1712 oil on canvas Museo Civico di Osimo |
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari after Annibale Carracci Christ and the Samaritan Woman 1712 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| attributed to Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari after Guido Reni Flight into Egypt before 1727 oil on canvas National Trust, Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire |
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1720 oil on canvas Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Adoration of the Magi ca. 1714 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |