ANDREA CAMASSEI. Painter, born at Bevagna on 2 December 1602, died at Rome on 18 August 1649. He was a pupil of Domenichino, but in his art he absorbed elements derived from Sacchi, developing an individuality that places him beside the latter as an initiator of a typically Roman pictorial trend despite his clear descent from the Bolognese school.
He was a rival of Pietro da Cortona in the decoration of Palazzo Barberini and collaborated with Sacchi on the work in the Lateran Baptistery, where he left notable frescoes. Among his altarpieces are notable a *Pietà* in the church of the Cappuccini and an *Assumption* in the Pantheon.
Bibl.: F. Noak in Thieme-Becker, V, p. 425; H. Voss, *Malerei des Barock in Rom*, Berlin n.d., p. 512; E. Waterhouse, *Roman painting of the seventeenth century*, London 1935, p. 138. Guglielmo Matthiae