Tommaso Laureti
Tommaso Laureti, often called Tommaso Laureti Siciliano (c. 1530 — 22 September 1602),[1] was an Italian painter from Sicily who trained in the atelier of the aged Sebastiano del Piombo and worked in Bologna. From 1582, he worked for papal patrons in Rome in a Michelangelo-inspired style with special skill in illusionistic perspective, that in his Roman work avoided all but traces of Mannerism.[2]
Biography
Laureti was born in
In the church of
In 1582, the administration of Pope Gregory XIII commissioned Laureti to execute a series of frescoes on a post-
Laureti's perspective design for a portion of an illusionistic ceiling, seen as
For the Basilica of
Laureti was the second principe or director of the Accademia di San Luca or the artists' academy in Rome, succeeding Federico Zuccari in 1595. His commemorative portrait (dated 1603) by Orazio Borgianni is still on display in the Accademia di San Luca.[6]
Sources
- Filippo Titi, Descrizione delle Pitture, Sculture e Architetture esposte in Roma, 1763
- (Getty Museum) "the Geometry of Seeing" 2002
- Laueti and the Sala di Costantino
- Roberto Piperno, "Chiesa di Santa Susanna" G. Vasi's description, 1761.
- Freedberg, Sydney J.(1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books Ltd. pp. 654–55.
Notes
- ^ G. Baglione, Le vite dei pittore (Rome) 1642:
- ^ Freedberg 1993: page 654.
- ^ An engraved detail is dated 1562, according to Ebria Feinblatt, "Contributions to Girolamo Curti" The Burlington Magazine, 117 No. 867 (June 1975, pp. 342+344-353) p. 349.
- ^ Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums Archived 2014-04-16 at the Wayback Machine, webpage on Hall of Constantine.
- ^ An example was included in the Getty Museum exhibition "The Geometry of Seeing", 2002.
- ^ Harold E. Wethey, "Orazio Borgianni in Italy and in Spain" The Burlington Magazine 106 No. 733 (April 1964, pp. 146-159), pp 148f, 152, fig. 6, 154.