Domenico Fetti

Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti) (c. 1589 – 16 April 1623) was an Italian Baroque painter who was active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice.

The series of representations of New Testament parables he carried out for his patron's studiolo gave rise to a popular speciality,[1] and he and his studio often repeated his compositions.

[2] In August or September 1622,[3] his feuds with some prominent Mantuans led him to move to Venice, which for the first few decades of the seventeenth century had persisted in sponsoring Mannerist styles (epitomized by Palma the Younger and the successors of Tintoretto and Veronese).

Into this mix, in the 1620s–30s, three "foreigners"—Fetti and his younger contemporaries Bernardo Strozzi and Jan Lys—breathed the first influences of the Roman Baroque style.

In addition, he devoted attention to smaller cabinet pieces that adapt genre imaging to religious stories.

Magdalene in Meditation ( Accademia, Venice )
Portrait of a Man with a Sheet of Music ( Getty Museum )