Genoa 1639-Rome 1709  Related Paintings of Giovanni Battista Gaulli Called Baccicio :. | Portrait of Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici | Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne | The Worship of the Holy Name of Jesus, with Gianlorenzo Bernini, on the ceiling of the nave of the Church of the Jesus in Rome. | Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne | Continence of Scipio |
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ASSERETO, Gioachino
Italian painter, Genoese school (b. 1600, Genova, d. 1649, Genova)
BRAKENBURG, Richard
Dutch painter (b. 1650, Haarlem, d. 1702, Haarlem)
MIGNARD, Pierre
French Baroque Era Painter , b. 1612, Troyes, d. 1695, Paris called "Le Romain" to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas, was a French painter. He was born at Troyes, and came of a family of artists; he also needs to be distinguished from his nephew Pierre (1640-1725), often called "Pierre II" or "Le Chevalier". In 1630 he left the studio of Simon Vouet for Italy, where he spent twenty-two years, and made a reputation which brought him a summons to Paris. Successful with his portrait of the king, and in favour with the court, Mignard pitted himself against Le Brun, declined to enter the Academy of which he was the head, and made himself the centre of opposition to its authority. The history of this struggle is most important, because it was identical, as long as it lasted, with that between the old gilds of France and the new body which Colbert, for political reasons, was determined to support. Portrait of Louise de Kerouaille, Duchess of PortsmouthShut out, in spite of the deserved success of his decorations of the cupola of Val de Grace (1664), from any great share in those public works, the control of which was the attribute of the new Academy, Mignard was chiefly active in portraiture. Turenne, Moliere, Bossuet, Maintenon (Louvre), La Valliere, Sevigne, Montespan, Descartes (Castle Howard), all the beauties and celebrities of his day, sat to him. His readiness and skill, his happy instinct for grace of arrangement,