Giovanni Lanfranco (born: 26 January 1582, Parma, Italy - died: 30 November 1647, Rome) was an Italian baroque painter. Lanfranco began decorating the Jesuit church of the Gesù Nuovo in Naples in 1634, he stayed there for 12 years after. Jump to: navigation, search January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 15 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland February 24 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. ... Parma is a medieval city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, with splendid architecture and a fine countryside around it. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days remaining, as the final day of November. ... // Events March 14 - Thirty Years War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. ... Jump to: navigation, search City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost... Jump to: navigation, search Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that... Jump to: navigation, search Location within Italy Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Napule, from Greek Νέα Πόλις - Néa Pólis - meaning New City; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of Campania Region. ...

Born near Parma, apprentice to Agostino Carracci, and in 1616 formed part of team that decorated the ceiling of the Casino Borghese in a manner derived entirely from the Farnese Gallery. Decorated the dome in San Andrea della Valle in Rome. Lanfranco completed an Assumption by 1627.

From 1633-1634 to 1646 he was in Naples. He died in Rome, where his last work was apse of San Carlo ai Catinari.

The is also a fresco by Giovanni Lanfranco above the monument of Pope Clement VIII in Santa Maria Maggiore. Clement VIII, né Ippolito Aldobrandini (March 1536 – March 5, 1605) was pope from 1592 to 1605. ... Saint Mary Major, in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore, is one of the five great ancient basilicas of Rome, Italy. ...

Lanfranco is known for keenly competing against fellow Carracci trainee, Domenichino and ultimately accusing him of plagiarism for his painting of The Confession of St Jerome, now in the Vatican. Jump to: navigation, search The Flight into Egypt (1603) Oil on canvas, 122 x 230 cm Galleria Doria-Pamphili, Rome Annibale Carracci (November 3, 1560, in Bologna - July 15, 1609, in Rome) was an Italian painter, etcher and engraver. ... Domenico Zampieri (or Domenichino) (October 21, 1581 - April 15, 1641), Italian painter, born at Bologna, was the son of a shoemaker. ...

See the Domenichino Affair by Elizabeth Cropper, dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art.