Domenico Corvi
Domenico Corvi (1721–1803) was an Italian painter at the close of the 18th century, active in an early Neoclassic style in Rome and surrounding sites.
Biography
Corvi was born in
In 1756, along with Vincenzo Strigelli and Anton Angelo Falaschi, he frescoed the Viterbese Oratorio del Gonfalone.[1] The patronage of the Antonelli family gained him the commission for three altarpieces (1754 and 1756) for the church of Senigallia. He also painted for the Church of Saint Marcello, and a series of historical canvases for Palazzo Barberini.
In 1770-78 Corvi frescoed ceilings for the
In 1774-1778 Corvi completed a canvas cycle for a Swiss Abbey in Solothurn, Switzerland, now apparently housed in the Cathedral of St Ursus in the town.
Corvi joined the artists’
Among his pupils were Francesco Alberi and Vincenzo Camuccini.
Corvi died in 1803 in Rome.
References
- ^ viberto.artecitta.it Archived June 21, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- Renaissance to Rococo; Masterpieces from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Edited by Eric Zafran. (2004) Yale University Press. New Haven and London. pp90–91.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060607072926/http://www.italica.rai.it/index.php?categoria=biografie&scheda=corvi
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