Carlo Pellegrini (17th-century painter)
Carlo Pellegrini (1605–1649) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
He was born in Massa Carrara, Italy and trained in Rome under Bernini. Carlo was active in painting in the Grottoes beneath the Basilica of Basilica of St Peter's; designed the St Bernard mosaic portrait, collaboration with Giovanni Battista Calandra, in the former church; and painted a Conversion of Paul for the church of the Propagande Fide in Rome.[1]
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Another painter of the same name (1866–1937) won a gold medal at the 1912 Olympics.
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- 1605 births
- 1649 deaths
- 17th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- Italian Baroque painters
- People from the Province of Massa-Carrara
- Italian painter, 17th-century birth stubs