Andrea Commodi (1560–1638) was an Italian painter of the early-

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, but mostly active in

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, he was a pupil of the painter Cigoli. He painted frescoes in the sacristy of San Carlo ai Catinari. In the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence there is a preparatory sketch ''Fall of the Angels''. This is a sketch for a fresco ordered by pope Paulus V Borghese for his palace of Montecavallo on the Quirinale in Rome, but the fresco was never executed. One of his pupils was a juvenile Pietro da Cortona who moved to Rome and became one of the towering figures of the Italian Baroque. Another pupil was Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi (1582–1659).

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* * 1560 births 1638 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Florence Italian Renaissance painters Fresco painters Artists from the Papal States {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub