Gaspare Celio
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Gaspare Celio was an Italian
Italy
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 painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period, active mainly in his native city of Rome
Rome
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His first commissions in about 1596 were completed with Giuseppe Valeriano who asked Celio to decorate the Chapel of the Passion in the church of il Gesù in Rome. He also paints a Madonna and Bambino, now in Santa Maria del Carmine
Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence
Santa Maria del Carmine is a church of the Carmelite Order, in the Oltrarno district of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. It is famous as the location of the Brancacci Chapel housing outstanding Renaissance frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino da Panicale, later finished by Filippino Lippi.-History:The...

, a Passagge through the Red Sea (1607), and for the Palazzo Mattei
Palazzo Mattei
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, la Death of the Giants

Between 1620 -1638 he helps publish a guide to the churches and artwork in Rome (Memoria delli nomi dell'artefici delle pitture che sono in alcune chiese, facciate e palazzi di Roma). He briefly worked in Parma as a painter for the court of Ranuccio Farnese
Ranuccio Farnese
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