Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

Variant namesauktoriserad namnform: Giovanni Francesco Romanelli

DatesBiographical dates: ca 1610 - 1662 Dead: dead 1662 Born: born c. 1610

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BiographyBiography: Giovanni 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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