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Tommaso Laureti, often called Tommaso Laureti Siciliano (c. 1530 — 22 September 1602), was a Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 painter from Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
 who trained in the atelier of the aged Sebastiano del Piombo
Sebastiano del Piombo

Sebastiano del Piombo , byname of Sebastiano Luciani, was an Italy Renaissance-Mannerism painter of the early 16th century famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school....
 and worked in Bologna
Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
 and, from 1582, for papal patrons in Rome in a Michelangelo-inspired style with special skill in illusionistic perspective that in his Roman work avoided all but traces of Mannerism
Mannerism

Mannerism is a Art periods of European art which emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but continued into the seventeenth century throughout much of Europe....
 (Freedberg 1993:654).

Laureti was born in Palermo
Palermo

Palermo is a historic city in southern Italy, the Capital of the autonomous region Sicily and the province of Palermo. The city is noted for its rich history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old....
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Tommaso
Tommaso Laureti, often called Tommaso Laureti Siciliano (c. 1530 — 22 September 1602), was a Italian
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
 painter from Sicily
Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
 who trained in the atelier of the aged Sebastiano del Piombo
Sebastiano del Piombo

Sebastiano del Piombo , byname of Sebastiano Luciani, was an Italy Renaissance-Mannerism painter of the early 16th century famous for his combination of the colors of the Venetian school and the monumental forms of the Roman school....
 and worked in Bologna
Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
 and, from 1582, for papal patrons in Rome in a Michelangelo-inspired style with special skill in illusionistic perspective that in his Roman work avoided all but traces of Mannerism
Mannerism

Mannerism is a Art periods of European art which emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but continued into the seventeenth century throughout much of Europe....
 (Freedberg 1993:654).

Laureti was born in Palermo
Palermo

Palermo is a historic city in southern Italy, the Capital of the autonomous region Sicily and the province of Palermo. The city is noted for its rich history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old....
. After his master's death in 1547, he settled in Bologna, introducing to the city illusionistic perspective paintings on ceilings, notably an Alexander the Great ceiling with a feigned architectural setting in Palazzo Vizzani. He painted a Transportation of the body of Saint Augustine for San Giacomo Maggiore. The Mannerist structural elements of the marble and bronze Fountain of Neptune in Bologna, which is surmounted by Giambologna
Giambologna

Giambologna, born as Jean Boulogne, also known as Giovanni Da Bologna and Giovanni Bologna , was a sculpture, known for his marble sculpture and bronze sculpture statuary in a late Renaissance or Mannerist style....
's Neptune, completed in 1566, were based on a 1563 drawing by Laureti. This commission from Pope Pius IV
Pope Pius IV

Pope Pius IV , born Giovanni Angelo Medici, was Pope from 1559 to 1565. He is notable for presiding over the culmination of the Council of Trent....
 is undoubtedly Laureti's most familiar public work (illustration, left below).

In the Church of Santa Susanna, Rome, Laureti's painting of the Death of Saint Susanna is above the high altar. His frescoes in the Sala dei Capitani in Michelangelo
Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance Painting, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer....
's Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Campidoglio painted in 1587-94 depicted inspiring episodes from Roman history: The Justice of Brutus, Horatius Cocles defending the Pons Sublicius, Victory at Lake Regillus, Mucius Scaevola before Lars Porsena.

In the Vatican he was commissioned by Gregory XIII to execute a series of frescoes on a post-Council of Trent
Council of Trent

The Council of Trent was the 16th century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Considered one of the Church's most important councils, it convened in Trento between December 13, 1545, and December 4, 1563 in twenty-five sessions for three periods....
 triumphalist theme, The Triumph of the Christian religion on the new vaulted ceiling of the Sala di Costantino ("Hall of Constantine"), where the walls had been frescoed by the school of Raphael early the century. The ceiling was completed under the pontificate of Sixtus V, whose armorial bearings were introduced into the frieze. The rigorous illusionistic perspectives represent a lifetime fascination with the art of perspective: Laureti's "instrument" demonstrating the basic principles of linear perspective

Laureti
Laureti's illusionistic sotto in su perspective design for a portion of an illusionistic ceiling was engraved for Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, often simply called Vignola was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism....
's, Le due regole della prospettiva pratica., 1583 (illustration, right).

In the Basilica di San Prospero, Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia

Reggio Emilia is an affluent city of Northern Italy Italy, in the Emilia-Romagna region. It has about 167,013 inhabitants and is the main comune of the Province of Reggio Emilia....
, his altarpiece of the Assumption was completed by Ludovico Carracci
Ludovico Carracci

Ludovico Carracci was an Italy, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna.Ludovico himself apprenticed under Prospero Fontana in Bologna and traveled to Florence, Parma, and Venice, before returning to his hometown....
 in 1602.

Laureti was the second principe of the Accademia di San Luca
Accademia di San Luca

The Accademia di San Luca, was an association of artists in Rome, founded in 1593 with the directorship of Federico Zuccari, with the purpose of elevating the work of "artists" above that of craftsman....
, succeeding Federico Zuccari
Federico Zuccari

Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italy Mannerism Painting and architect, active both in Italy and abroad....
 in 1595. His commemorative portrtait by Orazio Borgianni, dated 1603, is in the Accademia di San Luca, Rome.

Sources

  • 2002
  • G. Vasi's description, 1761.