Domenico Fetti 1588/89-1623

Domenico Fetti, one of the great protagonists of Italian painting in the early 1600s.

At Palazzo Te and Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, an exhibition was held in 1996 of one hundred works by Domenico Fetti (1598-1624), one of the great protagonists of Italian painting in the early 1600s.

The catalogue illustrates this first major monographic exhibition on the artist who worked in Rome, Mantua and Venice. The path of artistic growth of Fetti is carefully reconstructed, from the early years, influenced by the lessons of Caravaggio, to the discovery of the painting of Rubens, the focus on the Venetians of the 1500s, all the way to the small format works, 1662, where the landscape takes on an ever greater importance.