DOMENICHINO
(b. 1581, Bologna, d. 1641, Napoli)

Death of St Cecilia

1612-15
Fresco
Cappella Polet, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome

A narrative scene painted on a wall as a framed picture was referred to as a "quadro riportato," which to seventeenth-century thinking suggested that a framed panel painting had been translated into the medium of fresco. Domenichino's wall pictures in the Cappella Polet belongs to this category.