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OCR: LIFE Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (1596-1669). Italian painter and architect, a major influence in the development of High Baroque. He worked on a large scale, and is known more for his frescos than his easel paintings. His enormous fresco, "Allegory of Divine Providence," (1633-39, Barberini Palace, Rome) glorifies his patron the Pope and the Barberini family, and gives a convincing illusion of reality. His frescos in the dome and apse of S. Maria in Vallicella, Rome (1647-60), exhibit the combined use of paint and stucco. Pietro

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