Domenico Corvi

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Domenico Corvi (1721 - 1803) was a prominent Italian painter at the close of the 18th century, active in an early Neoclassic style in Rome and surrounding sites.

Born in Viterbo and died in Rome. Francesco Mancini was one of his pupils. He worked in a Roman mileu where late-Rococo of Pompeo Batoni and the incipient Neoclassicism of Anton Raphael Mengs coexisted, and fashioned a style in between. After some early works in Viterbo and Palestrina, Corvi began commissions in Palazzo Doria Pamphili, Borghese, the church of San Marco, and the Palazzo dei Conservatori. In 1771 he frescoed a Triumph of Apollo in the Villa Borghese and in 1782, he frescoed an Aurora. From 1774-1778, he completed canvas cycle for the Swiss Abby of Solothurn in Soletta. Corvi joined the artists’ Accademia dell'Arcadia. He painted The miracle of Saint Joseph Calasanz Resuscitating a Child in a Church at Frascati for the order of Piarists (Scolopi). The painting was made to conmemorate the canonization of the saint on July 16, 1767; and is now in the Wadsworth Atheneum.

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• Renaissance to Rococo; Masterpieces from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Edited by Eric Zafran. (2004) Yale University Press. New Haven and London. pp90-91.