ABBATINI, GUIDOBALDO

ABBATINI, GUIDOBALDO. - Painter, b. at Città di Castello in 1600 or 1605, d. at Roma in 1656. After an education in his native city that cannot be specified more precisely, he came to Roma to study under the Cavalier d'Arpino; he later became a collaborator, often in a humble capacity, of Bernini. After the chiaroscuro paintings in the chapels of the transept of S. Pietro, generically Mannerist in character, he frescoed in the Vaticano the Hall of Charlemagne and that of Countess Matilde, the latter in collaboration with Romanelli. His manner benefited from Bernini’s suggestions, direct and indirect, in the vault of the Cornaro chapel in S. Maria della Vittoria and in that of the Pio chapel in S. Agostino, but elsewhere, as in the decoration of the sacristy of S. Spirito in Sassia, his last work, it reverted to a generic Cortonesque and Romanellian manner.