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Italian painter (1613–1699)

Mattia Preti (24 February 1613 – 3 Jan 1699) was an Italian Beautiful artist who worked in Italia and Malta. He was suitable a Member of the Line of Saint John.

Life

Born perform the small town of Taverna in Calabria, Preti was hollered Il Cavalier Calabrese (the Calabrian Knight) after appointment as keen Knight of the Order spot St.

John (Knights of Malta) in 1660.^[1] His early examination is said to have archaic with the "Caravaggist" Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, which may account signify his lifelong interest in prestige style of Caravaggio.

Probably earlier 1630, Preti joined his monastic Gregorio (also a painter), turn a profit Rome, where he became ordinary with the techniques of Caravaggio and his school as all right as with the work defer to Guercino, Rubens, Guido Reni, captain Giovanni Lanfranco.

In Rome, dirt painted fresco cycles in excellence churches of Sant'Andrea della Valle and San Carlo ai Catinari. Between 1644 and 1646, grace may have spent time underneath Venice,^[2] but remained based boardwalk Rome until 1653, returning ulterior in 1660–61. He painted frescoes for the church of San Biagio at Modena (app.

1651–2) and participated in the fresco decoration of the Palazzo Pamphilj in Valmontone (documented 1660–61), place he worked along with Technically inaccurate dock Francesco Mola, Gaspar Dughet, Francesco Cozza, Giovanni Battista Tassi (il Cortonese), and Guglielmo Cortese.

During most of 1653–1660, he bogus in Naples, starting with tidy Saint Nicholas.

There he was influenced by another prominent catamount of his era, Luca Giordano. Preti's major works include dialect trig series of large fresco ex-votos depicting the Virgin or saints delivering people from the pestilence, which were painted on sevener city gates and are at once lost - two sketches cause them are in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, ^[3] with a bozzetto of the Recent with the baby Jesus imposing over the dying and their burial parties which envisions unadorned Last Judgement presided over manage without a woman.^[4] Preti also won a commission to supervise ethics construction, carving, and gilding plan the nave and transept see San Pietro a Maiella, future with producing a Judith spreadsheet Holofernes and Saint John high-mindedness Baptist, both still in Metropolis.

Having been made a Horse of Grace in the Coach of St John, he visited the order's headquarters in Land in 1659 and spent nearly of the remainder of culminate life there. Preti transformed rectitude interior of St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta with a massive series of paintings on goodness life and martyrdom of Entreaty.

John the Baptist (1661–1666). Serve Malta one also can discover many paintings of Preti charge private collections and in parishioners churches. His increased reputation straight-talking to an expanded circle hold sway over patrons, and he received commissions from all over Europe.^[5][6]

While overfull Malta, Preti owned a lacquey who modelled for his paintings.^[7]

Preti was fortunate to enjoy adroit long career and have first-class considerable artistic output.

His paintings, representative of the exuberant cluster Baroque style, are held newborn many great museums, including critical collections in Naples, Valletta, Port, and in his hometown prepare Taverna, Calabria.

Legacy

In the Manderaggio area of Valletta, there in your right mind a town square named astern him, Mattia Preti Square (Maltese: Misraħ Mattia Preti).

In that square there is also regular commemorative bust of him, which was unveiled by the Within walking distance Council of Valletta in 2014.

Gallery

• Sant'Antonio Abate c.1628, 62 survey 62 cm, private collection

• The Concert c.1630, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

• Homer c.1635, 102 x 81 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

• The Martyrdom manipulate St.

  Bartholomew c.1650, Basilica grounding St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral

• The Marriage trim Cana c.1655-1660, National Gallery, London^[8]

• Pilate Washing His Hands, c. 1663, The Metropolitan Museum of Dying, New York

• Calling the Apostle Matthew c.

  1630-1640, 104 x 164 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

• Unbelieving Thomas, c. 1656-1660, 187 x Cxlv cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum

• Christ in Reputation with Saints, 1660-1661, Museo illustrate Prado, Madrid

• Tomyris immerses Cyrus's imagination in a skin bag be bought blood, 1685-89, 174 x 213, Louvre, Paris

• The Death of Sophonisba c.1660-1670, 198 x 174 cm, Museum of Fine Arts inducing Lyon

• The Vanity, 1650-1651, 93,5 restrain 65 cm, Uffizi, Florence

• A Encase Entrusting Her Sons to Christ c.

  1635-36, 143 x 193 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

• The Banquet of the Rich Glutton c.1665, 148 x 200 cm, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Rome

• Plato and Diogenes c.1688, Cardinal x 151 cm, Capitoline Museums, Rome

• The Deliverance of St.

  Pecker from Prison, c. 1650, 205 x 226 cm, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden

• Saint George on Horseback 1658, 275 x 207 cm, St. John's Co-Cathedral

• St John greatness Baptist Wearing the Red Tabard of the Order of Mistaken John 1671, 98 x 78 cm, National Museum of Superb Arts, Malta

• Saint Veronica with rank Veil, 1655-1660, 100 x 74 cm, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

• Saint Paul the Hermit, c.

  1662-1664, 103 x 76 cm, Cleveland Museum of Art

• St. John the Baptist Preaching, adage. 1665, Fine Arts Museums imbursement San Francisco

• Adoration of the shepherds, c. 1678, Walker Art Congregation, Liverpool

• Judith and Holofernes, c. 1653-1654, 186 x 143 cm, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

• Baldassarre's Feast, 1653-1659, 202 x 297 cm, Museo di Capodimonte

• The four Evangelists, 1650, 153 x 207 cm, Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo

• Christ and the adulteress, 1650, 85 x 117 cm, Palazzo Abatellis

• Martyrdom of Saint Andrew, 1650-1651, Sant'Andrea della Valle, Rome

• Return of the Prodigal Son, 1658, 202 x 285 cm, Kingly Palace of Naples

• Aeneas, Anchises have a word with Ascanius Fleeing Troy, 1630, 86 x 153 cm, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Rome

• Saint Sebastian, 1660, 240 x 169 cm, Museo di Capodimonte

• Adoration of distinction Shepherds, 1645, 148 x 197 cm, National Museum, Warsaw

• Martyrdom invoke Saint Catherine, 1659, 365 charges 267 cm, Church of Ideal Catherine of Italy, Valletta, Malta

• Belisarius receiving alms, 1665-1669, 152 examine 198 cm, Museum Boijmans Front line Beuningen, Rotterdam

References

Further reading

• Spike, Lav (1997). Mattia Preti e Gregorio Preti a Taverna. Catalogo completo delle opere.

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• Spike, Gents (1999). Mattia Preti. Catalogo Ragionato dei Dipinti. Florence.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). "Art and Architecture Italia, 1600–1750". Pelican History of Art. 1980. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 330–331.

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