Giuseppe Passeri


Giuseppe Passeri was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native city of Rome.
Born the nephew of the painter Giovanni Battista Passeri, Giuseppe trained in the studio of Carlo Maratta. Among the paintings by Giuseppe is St. Peter baptizes the Centurion, transferred to mosaic; the original was moved to a church of the Conventuali in Urbino.
Passeri painted the second chapel on the right in Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in fresco from 1700-1703. In the same church, he also painted the altar paintings Three Archangels and Madonna of the Rosary.