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Pietro Aquila

Pietro Aquila was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period. He was born in Palermo. He mentored his nephew, the printmaker Francesco Faraone Aquila. He trained at the school of Palermo painter and engraver Pietro del Po and worked, like a teacher, first at home, in Palermo, then in Naples and Rome, where he pursued the ecclesiastical career. For his paintings that he left in Palermo in the church of the Pietà (Parabola del Figlio Prodigo, Abraham and Melchizede) and in the cloister of S. Maria delle Vergini (S. Benedetto), as well as some frescoes in the Chapel of the Rosary in S. Cita, he gained the status of "respectable painter", loyal to the Raphaelesque tradition. But Aquila established himself first and foremost as a copper engraver, dedicating himself to the distribution and popularization of many of the most remarkable paintings with the help of which the sacred and profane buildings of Rome were adorned at that time. He made engravings after the works of different artists that were dear to him including: Raphael before any other, and then Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, Giovanni Lanfranco, Lazzaro Baldi, Ciro Ferri, Morandi, Franceschini, and finally Carlo Maratta, who was bound to him by a close friendship.

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Date and place of birt:1630, Palermo, Italy
Date and place of death:1692, Alcamo, Italy
Period of activity: XVII century
Specialization:Artist, Draftsman, Engraver, Graphic artist, Painter
Genre:Mythological painting, Religious genre
Art style:Baroque, Old Masters
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Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574 - 1625)
Giulio Cesare Procaccini
1574 - 1625
Francesco Beda (1840 - 1900)
Francesco Beda
1840 - 1900
Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay (1653 - 1715)
Jean-Baptiste Belin de Fontenay
1653 - 1715
Nicolas de Largillière (1656 - 1746)
Nicolas de Largillière
1656 - 1746
Daniel Marot I (1661 - 1752)
Daniel Marot I
1661 - 1752
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (1734 - 1781)
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
1734 - 1781
Antonio Rossi (1700 - 1753)
Antonio Rossi
1700 - 1753
Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo (1629 - 1693)
Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo
1629 - 1693
Ciro Ferri (1634 - 1689)
Ciro Ferri
1634 - 1689
Giovanni Antonio Urbani (XVIII century - XVIII century)
Giovanni Antonio Urbani
XVIII century - XVIII century
Alexei Petrovich Antropov (1716 - 1795)
Alexei Petrovich Antropov
1716 - 1795
Anthonie Palamedesz (1601 - 1673)
Anthonie Palamedesz
1601 - 1673
Alonso Cano (1601 - 1667)
Alonso Cano
1601 - 1667
Peter Binoit (1590 - 1632)
Peter Binoit
1590 - 1632
Gaspard Duguet (1615 - 1675)
Gaspard Duguet
1615 - 1675
Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine (1751 - 1824)
Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine
1751 - 1824
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