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| Lazzaro Baldi after Giulio Romano Battle of Constantine and Maxentius (detail of fresco in Vatican Stanze) ca. 1650 oil on canvas University of Edinburgh |
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| attributed to Lazzaro Baldi Joseph and Potiphar's Wife before 1703 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Lazzaro Baldi St Sebastian before 1703 oil on canvas Catedral de Cortona |
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| Lazzaro Baldi St Sebastian (study for painting) before 1703 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
"Born in 1624 in Pistoia, Baldi was a student of Pietro da Cortona in Rome after 1647. From the 1650s onward, following the recommendation of his master, he took part in various important commissions such as the frescoes in the Gallery of Alexander VII in the Quirinal Palace. Thereafter Baldi was one of the most active painters of religious subjects in Rome and central Italy. He attained no great independence as an artist; he stands very close in style to Ciro Ferri, but without Ferri's versatility and adaptiveness. In his draftsmanship, especially in the treatment of drapery, Baldi is typical of the latest phase of the Cortonesque style. He was but little gifted in regard to his coloristic-painterly talents. In his more mature work the influence of Carlo Maratti is also very evident."
– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)
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| Lazzaro Baldi Virgin and Child with St Charles Borromeo and St Francis of Assisi before 1703 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Filippo, Fossombrone |
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| Lazzaro Baldi Nativity Scene before 1703 oil on canvas Basilica di Santa Prudenziana, Rome |
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| Lazzaro Baldi Presentation Drawing for Epitaph ca. 1680-90 watercolor Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| attributed to Lazzaro Baldi Monastic Saint presented to the Holy Trinity by the Virgin (study for ceiling decoration) before 1703 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Lazzaro Baldi St Luke the Evangelist seated on Clouds (print study for Accademia di San Luca, Rome) ca. 1679 drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to Lazzaro Baldi St Luke seated on Clouds before 1690 etching British Museum |
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| attributed to Lazzaro Baldi Scenes from the Life of a Carmelite Nun (Christ Child appears to the Nun - The Nun and her Companions are guided by an Angel) ca. 1650-70 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Lazzaro Baldi Scenes from the Life of a Carmelite Nun (Christ with Thunderbolt appears to the Nun) ca. 1650-70 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Lazzaro Baldi St Charles Borromeo in Ecstasy before 1703 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Lazzaro Baldi Study for Annunciation before 1703 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |