Domenico Fetti

An Italian Baroque painter, Domino Fetti was born on 1589 to an unknown painter, Pietro Fetti in Rome, Italy. His early works were religious paintings, but later he swing towards making portraits which made him become famous. He was mainly active in Rome, Mantua and Venice. In 1620, he created his most famous painting,"Melancholia", in which he depicted a woman who is lost in her thought and surrounded by symbolic objects. He had a great influence on Baroque art and now his works can be found in museums and collections around the world.

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