Giacinto Brandi
Giacinto Brandi was an Italian painter from the Baroque era, active mainly in Rome and Naples.
brings the Holy Communion to the victims of the Plague'', left-hand altar, Santa Maria della Vittoria, RomeBiography
Born in Poli, in Lazio, he was trained in Rome at the studio of Alessandro Algardi, a noted sculptor who noted that Brandi was more suited to painting. He joined the studio of Giovanni Giacomo Sementi. He traveled to Naples from 1638, and by 1647 had returned to Rome to work under Giovanni Lanfranco, where Brandi befriended Mattia Preti. The two artists artists would later on, often collaborate.
His works are well distributed among baroque Churches of Rome including San Carlo al Corso ceiling frescoes, San Silvestro in Capite, Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, a canvas of Sant'Andrea in Santa Maria in Via Lata, a painting of Martyrdom of the Forty for the Chiesa delle Santissima Stimmate di San Francesco, a Coronation of the Virgin which serves as main altarpiece for the church of Gesù e Maria, a canvas of the Drunkedness of Noah in the Galleria Corsini, an Assumption for Santa Maria in Organo in Verona, a fresco from Ovid's Metamorphoses for Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona, and a Martyrdom of San Biagio for the church of San Carlo ai Catinari. In 1647, he joined the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon in Rome and from 1651 was inducted into the Accademia di San Luca for painters. In 1663, he frescoed the life of Saint Erasmus for the crypt of the cathedral of Gaeta. Some of his works are in Milan, Toledo, and Zaragoza.
Among his pupils were Carlo Lamparelli of Spello, and
Alessandro Vassello.
