Domenichino, October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641, was an Italian painter born Domenico Zampieri in Bologna. He trained first under Denys Calvaert and then in the Carracci Academy before moving to Rome in 1602, where he became a pupil and assistant of Annibale Carracci.
He worked in Rome, Bologna, Fano, and Naples, producing altarpieces, fresco cycles, drawings, and landscapes. His major commissions included the frescoes in Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome and the decoration of the Chapel of Saint Januarius in Naples Cathedral.
Domenichino died in Naples while the cathedral commission was still unfinished. His paintings and drawings are held by collections including the Musée du Louvre, the National Gallery of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Royal Collection.
Domenichino, in a portrait by an unknown artist
Saint Cecilia with an Angel Holding a Musical Score, 1600–1625
Oil on canvas, 63 × 47.2 in
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Rinaldo Presenting a Mirror to Armida/Rinaldo and Armida, 1600–1625
Oil on canvas, 47.6 × 66.1 in
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Venus, 17th century
Oil on canvas, 44.5 × 65.7 in
York Art Gallery
Virgin and Unicorn, 1604–1605
Fresco
Palazzo Farnese, Rome
The Way to Calvary, c 1610
Oil on copper, 21.1 × 26.6 in
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Hunt of Diana/Diana and Her Nymphs, 1616–1617
Oil on canvas, 88.6 × 126 in
Galleria Borghese, Rome
Saint Agnes, c 1620
Oil on canvas, 83.7 × 60 in
Royal Collection, UK
Cumaean Sibyl, 1622
Oil on canvas, 54.3 × 40.6 in
Capitoline Museums, Rome
The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, 1626
Oil on canvas, 48 × 67.8 in
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Apparition of the Virgin and Child and Saint Januarius at the Miraculous Oil Lamp, 1637–1638
Oil on canvas
Naples Cathedral
Two Studies of a Foot, 1591–1641
Red and white chalk on paper, 10.7 × 7.6 in
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Head of a Bearded Man, 1620–1630
Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, 13.4 × 9.6 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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