Baroque and Rococo
Domenichino
Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri)(b Bologna, Oct 1581; d Naples, 6 April 1641).
Italian painter and draughtsman. On the basis of his frescoes and altarpieces he became established as the most influential exponent of the 17th-century classical style. Through his critical analysis of the art of Raphael and Annibale Carracci he was influential in the creation of a modern canon of the ancients; and he was perhaps the most complete example of a 17th-century artist struggling to reconcile tradition with the demand for spectacle.
The Cumaean Sibyl
c. 1610
Oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome
Saint Agnes
c. 1620
Oil on canvas, 213,4 x 152,4 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
