Gregorio Preti (Taverna 1603 - Rome 1672) was a Baroque painter. He was the brother of famous Calabrian painter Mattia Preti. There is a fresco by him in the church of San Carlo ai Catinari at Rome.
Gaspard Dughet, also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome.
St John's Co-Cathedral is a Roman Catholic co-cathedral in Valletta, Malta, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. It was built by the Order of St. John between 1573 and 1578, having been commissioned by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the Conventual Church of Saint John.
Taverna is a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy. It is located at the feet of the Sila mountain range.
Mattia Preti was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Saint John.
Francesco Cozza was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Giacinto Brandi was an Italian painter from the Baroque era, active mainly in Rome and Naples.
Roberto Longhi was an Italian academic, art historian, and curator. The main subjects of his studies were the painters Caravaggio and Piero della Francesca.
Bernardo de' Dominici or Bernardo De Dominici was an Italian art historian and painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Naples. As a painter he was known for his landscapes, marine vedute and genre scenes in a style characteristic of the Bamboccianti. He is now mainly known for his art historical writings and in particular the Vite dei Pittori, Scultori, ed Architetti Napolitani, a three volume collection of brief biographies of Neapolitan artists.
Leonardo Coccorante (1680–1750) was an Italian painter known for his capricci depicting imaginary landscapes with ruins of classical architecture.
Pietro Campana (1727–1765) was a Spanish engraver.
Giuseppe Maria Ficatelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
The Italian painter and engraver Bernardino Mei worked in a Baroque manner in his native Siena and in Rome, finding patronage above all in the Chigi family.
Carlo Rosa 1613 – September 12, 1678) was an Italian painter.
Suor Maria de Dominici was a Maltese painter, sculptor, and a Carmelite tertiary nun. Born into a family of artists based in the city of Birgu (Vittoriosa), she was the daughter of a goldsmith and appraiser for the Knights of Malta. Two of her brothers, Raimondo de Dominici and Francesco de Dominici, were painters. Raimondo's son Bernardo would write a contemporary art history book that included references to his aunt Maria.
The Plato and Diogenes is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Baroque painter Mattia Preti, executed c. 1688. It is housed in the Pinacoteca of the Capitoline Museum in Rome.
The Banquet of a Rich Glutton is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Baroque painter Mattia Preti, executed c. 1665. It is housed in the Pinacoteca of the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, in Rome.
Sant'Antonio Abate is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Baroque painter Mattia Preti, executed c. 1628. It is part of the Collezione M curated by the Fondazione Sorgente Group in Rome, Italy.
The Fontana or Fontanone di Ponte Sisto, once known as the Fontanone dei Cento Preti, is an early 17th-century, monumental fountain now located in Piazza Trilussa, facing the south end of the Ponte Sisto, in Trastevere, Rome, Italy. It was reconstructed here in the late 19th century, originally erected across the river, attached to the former building of the Collegio Ecclesiastico.
Judith and Holofernes is an oil on canvas painting by Italian artist Mattia Preti, datable to around 1653–1656. It is held at the Museo di Capodimonte, in Naples.
Saint John the Baptist is a c.1653-1656 oil on canvas painting by Mattia Preti, now in the Museo nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples.