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Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari (10 March 1654 – 8 September 1727), also known simply as ''Giuseppe Chiari'', was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mostly in Rome. ==Biography== Born in Rome, he was one of the main assistants, along with Giuseppe Passeri and Andrea Procaccini, in the studio of an elder Carlo Maratta.〔''Documentation for a Little-Known Work by Carlo Maratti'', Jean K. Westin. The Burlington Magazine (1973) p738-40〕 His father had opposed the career, but his mother, on the recommendation of a painter named Carlo Antonio Gagliani.〔(Memorie per servire alla storia della romana Accademia di San Luca ) by Melchiorre Missirini, page 203〕 By the age of 22, he had frescoed the lateral lunettes (''Birth of Virgin'' and ''Adoration of Magi'') of the Marchionni chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Suffragio. He also painted the ceiling of a chapel in Santa Maria in Cosmedin.〔Missirini, page 203.〕 He frescoed rooms in the Palazzo Barberini to allegorical sketches of Bellori of ''Aurora leading Apollo and chariot with time and seasons'' with extensive interweaving of heraldic symbols, including bees (symbol of Barberini); two-headed eagle alighting on globe with blue and white stripes (symbol of the family of Vittorio Ottoboni;〔Ottoboni became Gonfalienori de la Chiesa for the pope.〕 crossed keys under baldachin (symbol of Pope Alexander VIII); a golden fleece (symbol of award given to Taddeo Barberini; a column (symbol of the Colonna family);〔The Barberini had acquired Palestrina from the Colonna〕 sun and laurels (symbols of Urban VIII), and post (symbols of the Pignatelli family〔Pope Innocent XII was a member of the Pignatelli family〕). He also frescoed the Palazzos Colonna and Spada with scenes based on Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''. He additionally frescoed the ''Villa di Marchese Torri'' outside of ''Porta San Pancrazio'' in collaboration with landscape artist Jan van Bloemen; as well as the church of San Silvestro in Capite with ''Madonna and child with Saint Anthony performing miracles'' and ''Pope Stephen I destroying temple of Mars with lightning'' (1696) for Santa Maria del Suffragio (where he completed Niccolò Berrettoni's fresco). He also painted for Santa Maria in Posterola,〔Santa Maria in Posterola, originally in central Rome on the shores of the Tiber, no longer exists.〕 Santa Maria di Loreto, San Salvatore in Lauro, and an ''Assumption'' for Santa Maria del Montesanto. For Basilica di San Clemente, he painted a ''St Clement in Glory'' for pope Clement XI. He also prepared the cartoons for the mosaics in the lateral nave of the Basilica of Saint Peter’s and San Giovanni Laterano with the oval of ''Prophet Obdiah listening to trumpet of Judgement Day''. He also painted a ''Vision of St John'' in the chapel of the ''Presentazione'' for the Duomo di Urbino.〔Also now lost.〕 He was a teacher of William Kent, Paolo Anesi, and Giovanni Andrea Lazzarini. His studio is described as highly frequented by French artists.He became director or ''principe'' of the Accademia di San Luca (1723–25).〔Missirini, page 204.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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