Gaulli
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
1639-1709
Giovanni Battista Gaulli, called Il Baciccia or Il Baciccio. Genoese-Roman School. Born 1639; died 1709. He is said to have copied frescoes by Perino del Vaga in Genoa before he left, some time in the 1650s, for Rome. There he was profoundly influenced by Bernini, as is most noticeable in the Baroque movement of his figures and in the sculpturesque folds of their drapery. He learned much also from Pietro da Cortona. The bright coloring of his middle period becomes more subdued in his late work, as the movement tends in his late period toward the calmer, graceful style of the proto-Rococo. Gaulli's most famous work is the frescoed ceiling of the Church of the Gesù in Rome.
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