In combining architecture, painting, and sculpture to act on viewers' emotions, Pietro da Cortona was the quintessential practitioner of the High Baroque style. Painter, architect, and sculpture designer, the energetic Pietro always worked simultaneously on architectural and decorative projects. His dignified yet festive combination of paint and stucco became Europe's official decorative style for aristocratic dwellings. Pietro da Cortona once wrote that architecture was only a pastime for him, but he was second only to Gian Lorenzo Bernini among seventeenth-century Roman architects. His finest building, SS. Martina e Luca, typifies the High Baroque in its interplay of light and shadow through convex and concave forms.

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	Exterior view 1635-50 Photo Santi Luca e Martina, Rome	1000*1322 True Color 210 Kb
	Exterior view 1635-50 Photo Santi Luca e Martina, Rome	1115*1200 True Color 177 Kb
	Exterior view 1635-50 Photo Santi Luca e Martina, Rome	1200*799 True Color 172 Kb
	Exterior view 1635-50 Photo Santi Luca e Martina, Rome	1600*1067 True Color 130 Kb
	Exterior view 1635-50 Photo Santi Luca e Martina, Rome	846*1200 True Color 196 Kb
	Interior view 1635-50 Photo Santi Luca e Martina, Rome	1061*1300 True Color 231 Kb
	Interior view 1635-50 Photo Santi Luca e Martina, Rome	1100*825 True Color 107 Kb
	Interior view 1635-50 Photo Santi Luca e Martina, Rome	866*1000 True Color 248 Kb
	Exterior view 1656-67 Photo Santa Maria della Pace, Rome	795*1024 True Color 162 Kb
	Exterior view 1656-67 Photo Santa Maria della Pace, Rome	1500*2000 True Color 254 Kb
	Exterior view 1656-67 Photo Santa Maria della Pace, Rome	1000*685 True Color 108 Kb
	Interior view 1656-67 Photo Santa Maria della Pace, Rome	1200*1600 True Color 220 Kb
	View of the piazza 1656-67 Etching Biblioteca Apostolica, Vatican	1000*634 True Color 134 Kb
	Proposal for the Eastern Façade of the Louvre 1664-65 Pen, brown ink, and wash Musée du Louvre, Paris	1500*843 True Color 247 Kb
	General view begun 1668 Photo San Carlo al Corso, Rome	1600*855 True Color 152 Kb
	Exterior view 1658-62 Photo Santa Maria in Via Lata, Rome	1050*1400 True Color 237 Kb
	Exterior view 1658-62 Photo Santa Maria in Via Lata, Rome	1028*1300 True Color 186 Kb
	Interior view 1658-62 Photo Santa Maria in Via Lata, Rome	1600*1200 True Color 245 Kb
	Interior view 1658-62 Photo Santa Maria in Via Lata, Rome	995*1300 True Color 228 Kb