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Corvi, Domenico
(b Viterbo, 16 Sept 1721; d Rome, 22 July 1803). Italian painter. At the age of 15 he went to Rome to become a pupil of Francesco Mancini, who inspired in him the eclectic approach to painting which was to characterize all his work. In 1750 he won first prize at the Accademia di S Luca, to which he was elected a full member in 1756 when, probably, he submitted his Nativity (Venice, Accad.), in which the atmospheric light and tender emotions illustrate Corrado Giaquinto’s early influence. Also in 1756 Corvi returned to his native Viterbo to take part in the decoration of the church of the Gonfalone, in collaboration with Vincenzo Strigelli (1713–69) and Antonio Faluschi. Corvi contributed two roundels of the apostles SS Simon and Jude and the scene of the Beheading of St John the Baptist. His early career was otherwise largely devoted to the decoration of churches in and around Rome. In 1758 he produced two paintings featuring Old Testament subjects, Gideon with the Fleece and the Sacking of Antioch, and two scenes from the Life of St Clare (Belluno, Certosa di Vedana), which are now thought to have been commissioned for S Caterina in Palestrina. Corvi’s style combines Baroque elements of light and colour (hence the previous attribution of this cycle to Sebastiano Ricci) with more classical elements of composition, indicative of the growing influence of Pompeo Batoni. This combination is again apparent in the Sacrifice of Isaac and the Finding of Moses (both 1762; Rome, S Marcello).
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