1609 – 1685

Giovanni Battista Salvi, Italian painter known by the name of his town of birth - Sassoferrato - and active in nearby Urbino and other cities of central Italy, notably Rome (where he was a pupil of Domenichino) and Perugia. He did some portraits but specialized in religious works painted in an extremely sweet, almost Peruginesque style. They are very clearly drawn and pure in colouring and totally un-Baroque in feeling - indeed they have a deliberately archaic quality that brings the paintings of the Nazarenes (a group of young, idealistic German painters of the early 19th century) to mind.Show more

14 artworks in collection