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| Livio Agresti St Jerome (detail) before 1580 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Livio Agresti St Jerome before 1580 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Livio Agresti Pedro II of Aragon submitting to Pope Innocent III 1561-63 fresco Sala Regia, Palazzo Apostolico, Vatican |
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| Livio Agresti Pedro II of Aragon submitting to Pope Innocent III (detail) 1561-63 fresco Sala Regia, Palazzo Apostolico, Vatican |
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| Livio Agresti Pedro II of Aragon submitting to Pope Innocent III (detail) 1561-63 fresco Sala Regia, Palazzo Apostolico, Vatican |
"Two collective Roman enterprises on a large scale afford condensed images of the look of painting in the city as the third quarter of the sixteenth century moved towards its end. One, the Sala Regia in the Vatican, had church histories, mainly of a secular kind, for its subjects. . . . The large room, of which the building was begun about 1540 to the plans of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, was entrusted first, in 1542, to Perino del Vaga to decorate. Before his death in 1547 he had seen to the execution of the stuccoed ceiling and designed the windows. When Perino died the Sala became an object of contest between Francesco Salviati and Daniele da Volterra. Daniele at first won, and held the commission between 1547 and 1550, working mainly on the stucchi (certainly those on the walls); he was then diverted to other decorations in the Vatican. . . . When Salviati was finally allowed to participate his behaviour was characteristically difficult and resulted in such conflict that it was decided, probably in 1563, on the suggestion of Pirro Ligorio, that the painting of the Sala should be shared out among younger artists. . . . Spaces were doled out to Taddeo Zuccaro, Siciolante, Livio Agresti da Forlì, and to a few lesser exponents of the Maniera mode of history painting who were as conventional as Agresti and even less talented."
– S.J. Freedberg, Painting in Italy 1500-1600 in the Pelican History of Art series (1970)
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| Livio Agresti The Crucifixion ca. 1550-60 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica di Forlì |
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| Livio Agresti The Crucifixion (detail) ca. 1550-60 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica di Forlì |
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| Livio Agresti The Crucifixion (detail) ca. 1550-60 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica di Forlì |
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| Livio Agresti Circumcision of Christ 1558 oil on canvas Museo Diocesano e Capitolare di Terni |
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| Livio Agresti Prophet Elijah before 1580 detached fresco Musei San Domenico, Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo, Forlì |
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| Livio Agresti King David before 1580 detached fresco Musei San Domenico, Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo, Forlì |
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| Livio Agresti Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek before 1580 detached fresco Musei San Domenico, Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo, Forlì |
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| Livio Agresti Gathering of Manna before 1580 detached fresco Musei San Domenico, Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo, Forlì |
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| Livio Agresti Passover Meal before 1580 detached fresco Musei San Domenico, Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo, Forlì |
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| Livio Agresti St Gregory the Great and the Doubting Woman before 1580 detached fresco Musei San Domenico, Chiesa di San Giacomo Apostolo, Forlì |