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| Pietro da Cortona The Annunciation ca. 1665-69 oil on canvas Chiesa di San San Francesco, Cortona |
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| Pietro da Cortona Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Felix of Cantalice, Andrew and Catherine ca. 1629-30 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Pietro da Cortona Landscape with Alum Mines at Tolfa ca. 1630-40 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome |
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| Pietro da Cortona The Calling of St Peter and St Andrew ca. 1626-30 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
"The genius of Pietro Berrettini, usually called Pietro da Cortona, was second only to that of Bernini. Like him he was architect, painter, decorator, and designer of tombs and sculpture although not a sculptor himself. His achievements in all these fields must be ranked among the most outstanding of the seventeenth century. Bernini and Borromini have been given back the position of eminence which is their due. Not so Cortona. . . . To be sure, Cortona's is the third name of the great trio of Roman High Baroque artists, and his work represents a new and entirely personal aspect of the style. . . . Compared with his great fresco cycles, his easel pictures are of secondary importance. But if they alone had survived he would still rank as one of the leading figures of the High Baroque. . . . [His best pictures], with their brilliant painterly qualities, their careful Renaissance-like grouping, their powerfully conceived main protagonists, and their concentration on the dramatic focus, belong to the highest class of 'history painting' in which the most coveted tradition of Raphael, Correggio, and Annibale Carracci find their legitimate continuation."
– Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, originally published in 1958, revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu and reissued by Yale University Press in 1999
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| Pietro da Cortona Hagar and the Angel ca. 1637-38 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida |
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| Pietro da Cortona Return of Hagar 1637 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Pietro da Cortona Martyrdom of St Stephen ca. 1660 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Pietro da Cortona Martyrdom of St Stephen ca. 1660 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pietro da Cortona Daniel in the Lions' Den ca. 1657-63 drawing Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Pietro da Cortona Daniel in the Lions' Den ca. 1657-63 oil on canvas Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Pietro da Cortona David slaying Goliath ca. 1625-39 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Pietro da Cortona David slaying Goliath ca. 1625-39 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome |
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| Pietro da Cortona Madonna and Child with St Martina of Rome ca. 1640-50 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Pietro da Cortona Madonna and Child with St Martina of Rome before 1669 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes |