This was the period of great changes, where art is at an important crossroads, facing a very painful choice between the school north of the Carracci, Caravaggio and the South. Peter, thirsty for new experiences, soon separates from the Florentine environment, which in recent years are closed to new languages. Then you know the Marquis Marcello Sacchetti, who attended the art world, places it in the right circles, also becoming her protector. At the same time he met Cassiano dal Pozzo and other artists who are concerned above all to spread inspired by ancient art, stimulating Cortona to undertake a rigorous research designs of the great works of classical antiquity.
Bags commissioned the Triumph of Bacchus and the Sacrifice of Polyxena (both in the Pinacoteca Capitolina), and further to the satisfaction obtained by these two great masterpieces, submit it to Pope Urban VIII (Maffeo Barberini was born), who commissioned important works' Fresco (left wall of the church of Santa Bibiana).
For Peter, it starts from the moment an extraordinary career that saw him official court painter and artist Pontifical most wanted by the noble families of his time.
In 1626, Marcella's bags requires the decoration of his villa in Castelfusano; the execution of this wonderful fresco cycle lasts four years. Later he was appointed by Pope Urban VIII, the decoration of the vault and the chapel of the Palazzo Barberini, one of his masterpieces, which was completed in 1639. Meanwhile Cortona goes in three cities to carry out some work: in Florence (two of the "Four Ages of Man" in the fireplace room at the Palazzo Pitti, which will perform it at a later time), Bologna (commissioned by Cardinal Giulio Bags for suggestions Studio of Fine Arts in Bologna) and in Venice for a short stay.
In 1640, Peter returned to Florence to the other terminal "Two Girls" and other works of a fresco in Palazzo Pitti, which will complete in 1647.
Cortona's reputation is well-established, even the death of Pope Urban VIII and Commodi can scratch any way, so that the road continues with the papal successors to Pope Urban VIII. The new pope, Innocent X (born Giovanni Battista Pamphili), gives him the task of painting the Palazzo Pamphili Gallery (1651).
Besides being a painter, Pietro da Cortona is also a great architect, as we bear witness to the churches in Rome where he worked: San Carlo al Corso, Santa Maria della Pace and Saint Luke and where he is buried (1669), and the artist calls "my beloved son" and "heir of all my fortune."
Author Resource:
Uri Nachimson, owner of La Mucchia art gallery at La Mucchia vacation farmhouse in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy.
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