CORTONA, Pietro da
(b. 1596, Cortona, d. 1669, Roma)

The Trinity in Glory

1648-51
Fresco
Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome

Pietro da Cortona's Trinity in Glory in the cupola of Santa Maria in Valicella, with its Trinity ringed by concentric choirs of angels and saints, is indebted to Giovanni Lanfranco whose cupola decoration in Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome set the style and type for seventeenth-century cupola frescoes in Italy.




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