Giovanni Francesco Romanelli
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Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610-1662) was an Italian painter of the Baroque.
Born in Viterbo, he was a pupil of Domenichino, and then Pietro da Cortona's main pupil, and like his master a protégé of the Barberini family. When the Barberini (with Urban VIII's death) fell out of favor during the Innocent X (Pamphili) papacy, Romanelli's patronage declined. He was then called by Cardinal Mazarin to work in Paris, for whom he frescoed a cylcle of painting based on Ovid's Metamorphoses. he also Salle des Saisons of the Louvre (painted for Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV).
