|
Guglielmi, Gregorio
(b Rome, 13 Dec 1714; d St Petersburg, 2 Feb 1773). Italian painter, active also in Germany and Central Europe. He trained either with Francesco Trevisani (Pascoli; Mariette) or with Sebastiano Conca (von Stetten). He was a protégé of Cardinal Alessandro Albani, and his early activity was centred in Rome, where he executed three canvases for St Catherine, Prague (one, St Augustine, in situ; two untraced), and the main altarpiece for S Apollonia, Rome (untraced). His Canonization of St Camillo de Lellis (Rome, Pin. Vaticana) dates from 1746. His frescoes included those in the hospital of the Santo Spirito in Sassia (1742; destr.); History Commands Time to Reveal the Truth (1746; Rome, Pal. Corsini; see fig.), commissioned by Cardinal Neri Corsini to decorate the history section of the Biblioteca Corsiniana in the Palazzo Corsini, Rome; the vault fresco, St Giovanni de Matha in Glory (1744–8), in Santa Trinità degli Spagnoli, Rome, and frescoes in the refectory of S Agostino, Rome (1750–51; in situ). In these first documented works the use of warm, luminous colours and strongly modelled figures within a naturalistic composition demonstrates the artist’s desire to unite the late Baroque of Conca with the developing classicism of Pierre Subleyras and Marco Benefial.
|
|
There are more than 45,000 articles in The Grove Dictionary of Art.
To access the rest of this article, including the bibliography, subscribe to
www.groveart.com.
To find out more about this subject, click on a related article below and
subscribe to www.groveart.com
|
