Italian painter and architect of the High Baroque (1596-1669)

185 pages : illustrations (1 colour) ; 21 cm.

Die tabulae anatomicae des Pietro Berrettini da Cortona / Lüdike Duhme.

The anatomical plates of Pietro da Cortona : 27 Baroque masterpieces ; with a new introduction by Jeremy M. Norman / [Pietro].

Tabulae anatomicae a ... P.B. ... delineatae, & egregie aeri incisae. Nunc primum prodeunt / et a Cajetano Petrioli ... notis illustratae.

A midwife wrapping the Virgin Mary in swaddling clothes after receiving her first bath, Anna is recuperating in bed. Engraving by P. de Surugue after Pietro da Cortona.

Antiochus is reclining on a bed while his physician Erasistratus is taking his pulse; King Seleucus and Queen Stratonice are seated at his bedside. Engraving by L. de Visscher after P. Berrettini da Cortona, ca. 1680.

Saint Martina. Engraving after Pietro Berrettini da Cortona.

Saint Catherine. Engraving by F. de Poilly after Pietro Berrettini da Cortona.

Saint Carlo Borromeo, with a rope around his neck, carrying a cross through the plague-ridden streets of Milan in 1576. Engraving by J. Frey, 1749, after Pietro da Cortona.

Cristobal Lozano presents to Pope Alexander VII an engraving of a mountain transformed into a statue of a man. Engraving by F. Spierre after Pietro da Cortona.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin): design for a shrine. Engraving by V. Regnard after P. Berrettini [Pietro da Cortona].

The love of divinity and wisdom and its effects on shameful love and indulgence. Engraving after Pietro da Cortona.

Erasistratus, a physician, realising that the illness of Antiochus (son of Seleucus I) is lovesickness for his stepmother Stratonice, by observing that Antiochus's pulse rose when ever he saw her. Coloured engraving by W.W. Ryland, 1772, after Pietro da Cortona.

1 print : line engraving, with etching ; image and lettering 50.4 x 35.1 cm

Abraham receives Hagar after an angel rescues her and her son Ishmael from the wilderness. Engraving by C. Faucci, 1766, after G. Traballesi after P. da Cortona.

1 print : etching ; platemark 44.3 x 61.4 cm

The rape of the Sabine women. Etching by P. Aquila after Pietro da Cortona.

1 print : etching ; platemark 26.2 x 38.3 cm

Princess Erminia of Antioch abandons her armour at the house of a basket-weaving shepherd. Etching by H.T.J. Bislinger, 1781, after P. Berrettini da Cortona.

The three holy women take spices to the tomb of Christ; an angel is waiting there. Etching by J.B. Patas after J.B. Wicar after P. da Cortona.

1 print : engraving, with etching : platemark 22.2 x 31.3 cm

Masinissa sends poison to his wife Sophonisba, to reassure the Romans of his loyalty and to save her the humiliation of enslavement. Engraving by J.B. Girardin (Gérardin) after Pietro da Cortona.

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Pietro da Cortona

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Abraham receives Hagar after an angel rescues her and her son Ishmael from the wilderness. Engraving by C. Faucci, 1766, after G. Traballesi after P. da Cortona.

The rape of the Sabine women. Etching by P. Aquila after Pietro da Cortona.

Princess Erminia of Antioch abandons her armour at the house of a basket-weaving shepherd. Etching by H.T.J. Bislinger, 1781, after P. Berrettini da Cortona.

The three holy women take spices to the tomb of Christ; an angel is waiting there. Etching by J.B. Patas after J.B. Wicar after P. da Cortona.

Masinissa sends poison to his wife Sophonisba, to reassure the Romans of his loyalty and to save her the humiliation of enslavement. Engraving by J.B. Girardin (Gérardin) after Pietro da Cortona.

Die tabulae anatomicae des Pietro Berrettini da Cortona / Lüdike Duhme.

The anatomical plates of Pietro da Cortona : 27 Baroque masterpieces ; with a new introduction by Jeremy M. Norman / [Pietro].

Frequent collaborators

Pietro da Cortona

Images from the collections

Images by Pietro da Cortona

Works from the collections

Abraham receives Hagar after an angel rescues her and her son Ishmael from the wilderness. Engraving by C. Faucci, 1766, after G. Traballesi after P. da Cortona.

The rape of the Sabine women. Etching by P. Aquila after Pietro da Cortona.

Princess Erminia of Antioch abandons her armour at the house of a basket-weaving shepherd. Etching by H.T.J. Bislinger, 1781, after P. Berrettini da Cortona.

The three holy women take spices to the tomb of Christ; an angel is waiting there. Etching by J.B. Patas after J.B. Wicar after P. da Cortona.

Masinissa sends poison to his wife Sophonisba, to reassure the Romans of his loyalty and to save her the humiliation of enslavement. Engraving by J.B. Girardin (Gérardin) after Pietro da Cortona.

Die tabulae anatomicae des Pietro Berrettini da Cortona / Lüdike Duhme.

The anatomical plates of Pietro da Cortona : 27 Baroque masterpieces ; with a new introduction by Jeremy M. Norman / [Pietro].

Frequent collaborators

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