Pietro Antonio de Pietri

Variant namesauktoriserad namnform: Pietro Antonio de Pietri Petrus de Petris

DatesBiographical dates: 1663 - 1716 Dead: dead 1716-12-20 Born: born 1663-02-20

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BiographyBiography: Pietro Antonio De Pietri was born in the village of Cadarese in the north of Italy. At a young age he was sent to relatives in Rome, before starting his apprenticeship with the artists Giuseppe Ghezzi and Angelo Massarotti. Around 1683, Carlo Maratta took De Pietri into his workshop, where he was appreciated for his ability to make copies. In 1703 he became a member of the Accademia dei Virtuosi del Pantheon and a few years later of the Accademia di San Luca. De Pietri was a prolific artist, and among his public works are the ceiling decoration of the chapel in the Palazzo Del Bufalo (today Ferraioli), commissioned by Cardinal Imperiali, and the altarpieces of the Crucifixion in the church of Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio, Rome, and the Madonna and Child with Saints Lawrence and Anthony in the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata, Rome. De Pietri was also a skilled draughtsman and engraver. Largely forgotten in the 1800s, De Pietri’s oeuvre was rediscovered in the 20th century through the studies of, among others, Anthony M. Clark, Joachim Harold and Suzanne Folds

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