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Domenichino
[ doh-mey-ni-kee-noh; Italian daw-me-nee-kee-naw ]
noun
- Domenico Zampieri (Le Dominiquin), 1581–1641, Italian painter.
Domenichino
/ dzԾˈ쾱ːԴ /
noun
- DomenichinoDomenico Zampieri15811641MItalianARTS AND CRAFTS: painter full name Domenico Zampieri (doˈmeːniko dzamˈpjɛːri). 1581–1641, Italian Baroque painter, noted for his frescoes and the altarpiece Last Communion of St Jerome (1614)
Example Sentences
In Domenichino’s version, at the Louvre, she is playing “a cantata to the Glory of Saint Cecilia” on the bass viol, which seems like kind of a lot.
But Annibale Carracci, Luca Giordano, Artemisia Gentileschi, Domenichino, Guercino, Guido Reni — these are names that will be familiar to art history students, but not the general public.
In Domenichino's nearby picture of hermit St. Jerome, the lush Arcadian landscape is untroubled.
The road to Frascati passed under the great aqueduct, its dark brown outlines standing out sharply defined against the clear blue sky; thence we proceeded to the monastery at Grotta Ferrata, where there are some beautiful frescoes by Domenichino; then to Marino, very 66 picturesquely situated on a hill, and proceeding along the margin of the lake we reached Castel Gandolfo.
The space between is occupied by other pictures of Raphael's, a portrait by Titian, a Domenichino, etc., and all these within the circumference of a small semicircle, no larger than one of your own rooms.
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