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Pietro Berrettini (1597-1669), called Pietro da Cortona, was one of the most influential ... changing standards of taste that no longer tolerated the extravagances of the High .... Pietro returned his friend's kindness by giving him the drawings he made ... despond < It is further a warning to the opulent, not to slight the notice of ...
The Painter and the Scullery Boy: Pietro da Cortona in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature* Lindsey Schneider

Pietro Berrettini (1597-1669), called Pietro da Cortona, was one of the most influential artists in seventeenth-century Italy and was celebrated as the premier decorative painter of his generation, most notably for his ceiling in the Barberini Palace in Rome (1633-39). His reputation began to suffer soon after his death, however, due in large part to changing standards of taste that no longer tolerated the extravagances of the High Baroque style that he helped to develop and with which he is indelibly linked.1 In 1692 the director of the French Academy in Rome, Matthieu de La Teulière, reported back to Paris that, ‘Pietro da Cortona and his school have spread such great debauchery here, operating under the guise of virtuosity, *