Cassiano Dal Pozzo
Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588 – 22 October 1657) was an Italian scholar and patron of arts. The secretary of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, he was an antiquary in the classicizing circle of Rome, and a long-term friend and patron of Nicolas Poussin, whom he supported from his earliest arrival in Rome: Poussin in a letter declared that he was 'a disciple of the house and the museum of cavaliere dal. Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) was born in Turin and brought up and educated in Pisa. In 1612 he moved to Rome, where he found himself among influential and cultivated patrons. After taking up a position in Cardinal Barberini's household in 1623, Cassiano soon became a prominent figure in Rome's aristocratic and intellectual life. THE PAPER MUSEUM OF CASSIANO DAL POZZO Francis Haskell and Henrietta McBurney C ASSIANO DAL POZZO is celebrated today as one of the most important art patrons in seventeenth-century Italy Fig. He commissioned more than 40 paintings by Nicolas Poussin and owned many others by some of the finest artists of the day. The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series A: Antiquities and Architecture (HMPMA) The ‘Paper Museum’ of Cassiano dal Pozzo is a collection of more than 7,000 watercolours, drawings and prints, today dispersed among the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the British Library, the Institut de France and various other public and private collections. A French classical painter, Nicolas Poussin has been an inspiration for countless number of great artists since the 17th century. At the age of 18, Poussin ran away from his hometown in Normandy, France, to Paris and began studying in the studios of the Flemish painters Ferdinand Elle and George Lallemand, who later became famous as the teachers of the great Nicolas Poussin.
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| Date of birth | 21 February 1588 Turin | ||
| Date of death | 22 October 1657 Rome | ||
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- 'Campagna di Roma olim Latium, Tuscia Suburbicaria, et in ea patrimonium S.Petri; nec non Sabina' (22264704311).jpg3,906 × 3,042; 2.45 MB
- CassianusAputeoengraving.jpg1,193 × 1,614; 1.8 MB
- Jan van den Hoecke - Portrait of Cassiano dal Pozzo.jpg278 × 380; 34 KB
- Portret van Cassiano del Pozzo, RP-P-1879-A-2943.jpg3,642 × 5,792; 5.07 MB