Bernardino Mei(1612/15 - 1676) worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family. Briefly a pupil of the Sienese draughtsman and cartographer Giuliano Periccioli, where he learned the art of engraving, Bernardino passed to the studio of the painter Rutilio Manetti and probably also served in the workshop of Francesco Rustici. He painted in and around Siena, where his work came to the attention of Cardinal Fabio Chigi, who, once elected pope as Alexander VII (1655), called Bernardino Mei to Rome in 1657. There Bernardino came under the influences of Mattia Preti, Andrea Sacchi and Pier Francesco Mola, and of Guercino, to the extent that until the 20th century Bernardino's fresco of Aurora in Palazzo Bianchi Bandinelli was attributed to Guercino himself. Through the fast friendship that bonded him to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whose studio he frequented, he applied that sculptor's sense of theatrical action to his own mythological and allegorical subjects. He died in Rome in 1676. | |||
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David and Bathsheba ID de tableau:: 71352 Voir la galerie dans Suède |
David and Bathsheba 17th century Oil on canvas 17th_century _ _Oil_on_canvas |
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Christ Cleansing the Temple ID de tableau:: 71353 Voir la galerie dans Suède |
Christ Cleansing the Temple c. 1655 Oil on canvas 41 x 55 1/2 in. c._1655 _ Oil_on_canvas _ 41_x_55_1/2_in. |
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Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra ID de tableau:: 71355 Voir la galerie dans Suède |
Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra 1654(1654) Orestes_slaying_Aegisthus_and_Clytemnestra _ _1654(1654) |
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Caritas romana ID de tableau:: 71539 Voir la galerie dans Suède |
Caritas romana 17th century Oil on canvas 98 x 131 cm 17th_century _ Oil_on_canvas _ _98_x_131_cm |
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David and Bathsheba ID de tableau:: 72452 Voir la galerie dans Suède |
David and Bathsheba Date 17th century Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions ? cm cyf Date_17th_century _ Medium_Oil_on_canvas _ Dimensions_?_cm _ cyf |
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| (1612/15 - 1676) worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family. Briefly a pupil of the Sienese draughtsman and cartographer Giuliano Periccioli, where he learned the art of engraving, Bernardino passed to the studio of the painter Rutilio Manetti and probably also served in the workshop of Francesco Rustici. He painted in and around Siena, where his work came to the attention of Cardinal Fabio Chigi, who, once elected pope as Alexander VII (1655), called Bernardino Mei to Rome in 1657. There Bernardino came under the influences of Mattia Preti, Andrea Sacchi and Pier Francesco Mola, and of Guercino, to the extent that until the 20th century Bernardino's fresco of Aurora in Palazzo Bianchi Bandinelli was attributed to Guercino himself. Through the fast friendship that bonded him to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, whose studio he frequented, he applied that sculptor's sense of theatrical action to his own mythological and allegorical subjects. He died in Rome in 1676. | ||||||||||
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