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Pietro Cortona (da)

Pietro Berzosini, Petrus Curtonen, Pietro Berrettini, Petrus Cortonen, Pietro Bersettini, Petrus Curtona (de), Pietro Berettini, Petrus Bertionus, Pietro Bertino, Pietro Cortonese, Pietro Berettino, Petrus Berattini

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Baglione, Giovanni. Le vite de’ pittori scultori et architetti dal pontificato di Gregorio XIII. del 1572 in fino a’ tempi di papa Urbano Ottavo nel 1642. 1642. Edited by Valerio Mariani. Rome, 1935.

Blunt, Anthony. "The Palazzo Barberini: The Contributions of Maderno, Bernini and Pietro da Cortona." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 21 (1958): 256–287.

Briganti, Giuliano. Pietro da Cortona o della pittura barocca. Florence, 1962, 1982.

Campbell, Malcolm. Pietro da Cortona at the Pitti Palace. Princeton, 1977.

Coffey, Caroline. "Pietro da Cortona's Project for the Church of San Firenze in Florence." Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institutes in Florenz 22 (1978): 85–118.

Félibien, André. Entretiens sur les vies et les ouvrages des plus excellens peintres anciens et modernes. 1666–1688. Reprint, Paris, 1967.

Kemp, Martin. "Dr. William Hunter on the Windsor Leonardos and His Volume of Drawings Attributed to Pietro da Cortona." Burlington Magazine 218 (1976): 144–148.

Krautheimer, Richard. The Rome of Alexander VII, 1655-1667. Princeton, 1985.

Magnanimi, Giuseppina. Palazzo Barberini. Rome, 1983.

Mancini, Giulio. Considerazioni sulla pittura. Edited by Adriana Marucchi and Luigi Salerno. Rome, 1956.

Merz, Jörg Martin, and Anthony F. Blunt. Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture. New Haven, 2007.

Merz, Jörg Martin. "Cortona, Pietro da." In The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner, vol. 7, 905–915. New York, 1996.

Missirini, Melchior. Memorie per servire alla storia romana della Accademia di S Luca fino alla morte di Antonio Canova. Rome, 1823.

Noehles, Karl. "Architekturprojekte Cortonas." Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst 20 (1969): 171–206.

Noehles, Karl. "Die Louvreprojekte von Pietro da Cortona und Carlo Rainaldi." Zeitschrift Kunstgeschichte 24 (1961): 40–74.

Noehles, Karl. La chiesa dei SS Luca e Martina nell'opera di Pietro da Cortona. Rome, 1970.

Noehles, Karl. "Zu Cortonas Dreifaltigkeitsgemälde und Berninis Ziborium in der Sakramentskapelle von St. Peter." Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 15 (1975): 169–182.

Ost, Hans. "Studien zu Pietro da Cortonas Umbau von S Maria della Pace." Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 11 (1971): 231–285.

Passeri, Giovanni Battista. Vite. 1679. Reprint, edited by Jacob Hess. Leipzig, 1934.

Pietro da Cortona architetto: Atti del congresso di studio promosso nella ricorrenza del III centario della morte, Cortona, settembre 1969. Cortona, 1978.

Preimesberger, Rudolf. "Pontifex Romanus per Aeneam Praesignatus: Die Galleria Pamphilj und ihre Fresken." Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 16 (1976): 221–287.

Sandrart, Joachim von. Joachim von Sandrarts Academie der Bau-, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste von 1675: Leben der berühmten Maler, Bildhauer und Baumeister. 1675–1679. Reprint, edited by A. R. Peltzer. Munich, 1925.

Scott, John Beldon. "The Art of the Painter's Scaffold: Pietro da Cortona in the Barberini Salone." Burlington Magazine 135 (1993): 327–337.

Thieme, Ulrich, and Felix Becker. Gesamtregister: Register zum Allgemeinen Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart und zum Allgemeinen Lexikon der bildenden Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts, s.v. “Cortona, Pietro da." Munich, 1996.

Vitzthum, Walter. "A Comment on the Iconography of Pietro da Cortona's Barberini Ceiling." Burlington Magazine 108 (1961): 426–433.

Wittkower, Rudolf. "Pietro da Cortonas Ergänzungsprojekt des Tempels in Palestrina." In Adolph Goldschmidt zu seinem siebenzigsten Geburtstag, am 15. Januar 1933, 137–143. Berlin, 1935.