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Also Known As Il Volterrano
Born 1611 • Volterra • Italy
Died 1690 (aged 79) • Florence • Italy
Movement / Style Baroque art and architecture
Last Communion of Saint Jerome, oil painting by Domenichino, 1614; in the Vatican Museum.
Domenichino
Italian painter
Pietro da Cortona: St. Martina
Pietro da Cortona
Italian artist
Orazio Gentileschi and Giovanni Lanfranco: Saint Cecilia and an Angel
Orazio Gentileschi
Italian painter
“Fortune Teller,” oil painting by Piazzetta, 1740; in the Accademia, Venice
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Italian painter
Il Guercino: Abraham Driving Out Hagar and Ishmael
Il Guercino
Italian artist
Plate 13: “Aurora,” ceiling fresco by Guido Reni, 1613-14. In the Casino Rospigliosi, Rome.
Guido Reni
Italian painter
Lanfranco, Giovanni: Assumption of the Virgin
Giovanni Lanfranco
Italian painter
The Triumph of the Name of Jesus
Baciccio
Italian painter
Franceschini, Marcantonio: Hagar and the Angel
Marcantonio Franceschini
Italian painter
Ciro Ferri: Triumph of Bacchus
Ciro Ferri
Italian painter
Sebastiano Conca
Italian painter
Cignani, Carlo: Satyr and Woman
Carlo Cignani
Italian painter
Virginia da Vezzo, the Artist's Wife, as the Magdalen, oil on canvas by Simon Vouet, c. 1627; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 101.6 × 78.74 cm.
Simon Vouet
French painter
Coello, Claudio: Adoration of the Holy Eucharist
Claudio Coello
Spanish painter
Jean Jouvenet: The Raising of Lazarus
Jean Jouvenet
French painter
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
Italian painter
Giotto: Lamentation
Giotto
Italian painter
Tintoretto: Last Supper
Tintoretto
Italian painter
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect

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