Mattia Preti

(1613–1699) Italian painter (1613-1699)

Mattia Preti (1613–1699) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Mattia Preti belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.

Mattia Preti was born in Taverna and died in Valletta. Wikidata associates Mattia Preti with Baroque. The students included Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio.

The best-known works include ‘The Martyrdom of Saint Peter’, ‘Aeneas, Anchises and Ascanius Fleeing Troy’, ‘The Return of the Prodigal Son’, and ‘Christ and the Obsessed’. The catalogue has 79 works by Mattia Preti with free images. The dated works span the years 1600–1750. Works by Mattia Preti are held by several collections, among them Museo di Capodimonte, Walker Art Gallery, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, and Département des peintures du Louvre. Wikidata links 3 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Lubin Baugin, Joannes Meyssens, Louis Ferdinand Elle l'Aîné, Bartholomeus van der Helst, and Gerard Dou.

• The Baroque
• Saint Sebastian
• Death of Sophonisbe