Agostino Tassi

Italian painter

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Agostino Tassi was an Italian landscape painter who lived from 1580 to 1644. He was known for his work in Rome and was a teacher of the renowned female painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Gentileschi studied under Tassi and her father, Orazio Gentileschi, and her early work was influenced by Tassi's style, which in turn was inspired by Caravaggio. Tassi was involved in a rape trial with Artemisia Gentileschi in 1612, where she was forced to testify under torture. Tassi was found guilty but his sentence was not enforced.12

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Artemisia Gentileschi
Early life and work
…his friend the landscape painter Agostino Tassi. At first Gentileschi painted in a style similar to her father’s somewhat lyrical interpretation of Caravaggio’s example, such that her earliest pieces were often mistaken for her father’s.
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…his friend the landscape painter Agostino Tassi. At first Gentileschi painted in a style similar to her father’s somewhat lyrical interpretation of Caravaggio’s example, such that her earliest pieces were often mistaken for her father’s.
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Orazio Gentileschi
…where, with the landscape painter Agostino Tassi, he painted frescoes in churches of Santa Maria Maggiore, San Giovanni Laterano, and Santa Nicola in Carcere from about 1590 to 1600, executing figures for Tassi’s landscapes.
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…where, with the landscape painter Agostino Tassi, he painted frescoes in churches of Santa Maria Maggiore, San Giovanni Laterano, and Santa Nicola in Carcere from about 1590 to 1600, executing figures for Tassi’s landscapes.
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Claude Lorrain
Life and works
…trained as an artist by Agostino Tassi, a landscapist and the leading Italian painter of illusionistic architectural frescoes. At what stage and for how long he was apprenticed is uncertain, and, either before or during this period, Claude probably spent two years in Naples with Goffredo Wals, another pupil of…
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…trained as an artist by Agostino Tassi, a landscapist and the leading Italian painter of illusionistic architectural frescoes. At what stage and for how long he was apprenticed is uncertain, and, either before or during this period, Claude probably spent two years in Naples with Goffredo Wals, another pupil of…
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