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| Andrea Camassei Massacre of the Niobids 1638-39 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
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| Andrea Camassei Study for Massacre of the Niobids ca. 1638-39 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Andrea Camassei Hunt of Diana ca. 1638-39 oil on canvas Palazzo Barberini, Rome |
"Andrea Camassei was a pupil of Domenichino, and in 1628 he assisted Andrea Sacchi in the decoration of the Villa Sacchetti al Castelfusano. In the 1630s he was employed by the Barberini family on several projects in Rome: for Don Taddeo he painted the Lamentation (1631) over one of the altars of the church of S. Maria della Concezione, and for Pope Urban VIII the ceiling decorations Apollo and the Muses (1632), now destroyed, and God the Father Dividing the Angel Hierarchies (1632) in Palazzo Barberini. At one time he was considered as a candidate to paint the ceiling of the 'gran salone' of the family palace, a commission eventually given to Pietro da Cortona. After Urban VIII's death in 1644, Camassei had difficulty finding work, and in 1646-47 once more assisted Sacchi, this time painting the Triumph of Constantine and the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in the Lateran Baptistery, the decoration of which Sacchi had in his charge. Camassei's work like Sacchi's is strongly classical in flavor and reflects the neo-Venetian style made popular in Rome by the French painter Nicolas Poussin in the second half of the 1620s."
– from biographical notes at the British Museum
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| Andrea Camassei Festival of Lupercalia in Ancient Rome ca. 1635 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Andrea Camassei Académie before 1649 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Andrea Camassei Académie (crowned with vine leaves) before 1649 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Andrea Camassei Académie before 1649 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Andrea Camassei Armida abducting Rinaldo before 1649 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Andrea Camassei Studies of Putti before 1649 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Andrea Camassei Abduction of Proserpine before 1649 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Andrea Camassei Martyrdom of St Sebastian before 1649 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Andrea Camassei Pietà ca. 1631-36 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Andrea Camassei Noli me tangere before 1649 drawing British Museum |
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| Andrea Camassei Holy Family with St John the Baptist before 1649 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |