\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Italian painter and architect. \par
Decisive factors in his development were his study of the painting of Raphael and the s
ixteenth-century Venetians, his knowledge of the work of Annibale Carracci and the early sculptures of Bernini, and his friendship with his patrons Giulio and Marcello Sacchetti. It was for the Sacchettis that he painted the \i Rape of the Sabine Women
\i0 (Rome, Pinacoteca Capitolina) between 1627 and 1629. From 1633 to 1639 he worked on the decoration of the ceiling of the salon of Palazzo Barberini in Rome with the \i Triumph of Divine Providence\i0 , in which the eloquence of RaphaelÆs narrative is combin
ed with Venetian coloring to create a spectacular composition with multiple points of view. The role Pietro played in architecture is very important. In his reconstruction of the church of Santi Luca e Martina in the Forum (1635-50) he created a synthesi
s between sixteenth-century schemes on a central plan and the new plastic and dynamic conception of space. His masterpiece is the intervention in Santa Maria della Pace, where he succeeded in blending a modern church into the medieval urban fabric.
