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- NameGiovanni Francesco Romanelli
- Sexmale
- Nationality/DatesItalian, born c. 1610, dead 1662
BiographyGiovanni Francesco Romanelli was born in
Viterbo in 1610. He went to Rome in 1624 and
was first trained by Domenichino. Later he was
a pupil of Pietro da Cortona and worked in his
workshop for a number of years. He became part
of the household of Cardinal Francesco Barberini
and worked for him until the Barberini pope Urban
VIII died and his patronage ebbed away. He
was then summoned to work in Paris by Cardinal
Mazarin, for whom he painted a fresco cycle
based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. He also painted
the ceiling decoration for the Salle des Saisons
and the Queen’s Cabinet of the Louvre for Anne
of Austria. After his two sojourns in France in
1645–47 and 1655–57, he returned to Rome and
then to Viterbo, where he died in 1662.
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