Pietro Da Cortona

Style: Baroque;

Place: Cortona

Born: 1596

Death: 1669

Biography:

Pietro da Cortona (1 November 1596/7 – 16 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations. He was born Pietro Berrettin...