Giuseppe Passeri (Rome, 12 March 1654 – 2 November 1714) was an Italian Baroque painter who worked throughout his life in his native city. He was the nephew of the painter Giovanni Battista Passeri and trained in the studio of Carlo Maratta, the leading figure of Roman painting in his day, and his name is linked to the continuation of that academic tradition in Rome at the close of the seventeenth century and the early eighteenth.
Among his works is St. Peter Baptizes the Centurion, which was transferred to mosaic; the original was moved to a Conventual church in Urbino. In Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli he frescoed the second chapel on the right between 1700 and 1703, and in the same church he painted the altarpieces Three Archangels and Madonna of the Rosary. He is also known for Armida and the Companions of Rinaldo (1685).
His work follows in the wake of Maratta, with orderly compositions and a calm classicism. His legacy rests mainly on his Roman frescoes and altarpieces, which document the weight of the Roman school in religious painting of the period.
Works (1)
Giuseppe Passeri painted this scene in 1685. It gathers Armida, the enchantress, with Rinaldo and his companions, characters from the Crusades episode in which magic and seduction divert the knights from their mission. Nude figures appear, including a woman and a domestic servant, and the picture is associated with the theme of temperance.
Where to see the work
- Louvre Museum Paris · 1
Teachers and pupils
Studied with
- Carlo Maratta 1625–1713
- Giovanni Battista Passeri 1610–1679