Calabrese, Il

Calabrese, Il:

see Preti, MattiaPreti, Mattia
, 1613–99, Italian baroque painter, called Il Calabrese for his birthplace. Preti went to Rome c.1630 and studied with Lanfranco. His most dramatic works were the Caravaggesque paintings of his period in Naples (1656–60).
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