Fabrizio Chiari (c.1615–1695[1][2][n 1]) was an Italian painter and engraver who spent his entire life in Rome.
[1] In San Martino ai Monti in the 1640s he painted the altarpiece, St Martin Dividing his Cloak with the Beggar, and a fresco, The Baptism of Christ, which was overpainted in the 18th century by Antonio Cavallucci.
[6] His Assumption of the Virgin and Death of St Anne, commissioned in 1654 for the chapel of Regina Coeli convent, were misplaced when it became a prison in 1880;[1][7] the latter turned up in 2012 and in 2019 sold for $30,000 at Sotheby's.
[1][8] Others of Chiari's works are no longer known, including church paintings mentioned by Filippo Titi and drawings listed by Nicola Pio [Wikidata].
[1] In 1675 Chiari decorated the Sala degli Specchi in the Palazzo Altieri, including a ceiling fresco, The Chariot of Apollo,[9][n 2] in which the cornices, unusually, depict the four ages of man rather than the four seasons.