Andrea Commodi was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the early-Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period. Born in Florence

Florence

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, but mostly active in Rome

Rome

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, he was a pupil of the painter Cigoli

Cigoli

Lodovico Cardi , also known as Cigoli, was an Italian painter and architect of the late Mannerist and early Baroque period, trained and active in his early career in Florence, and spending the last nine years of his life in Rome.Lodovico Cardi was born at Villa Castelvecchio di Cigoli, in Tuscany,...

. He painted frescoes in the sacristy of San Carlo ai Catinari

San Carlo ai Catinari

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 and a Fall of the Angels now in the Accademia

Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze

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 gallery in Florence. One of his pupils was a juvenile Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona, by the name of Pietro Berrettini, born Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, was the leading Italian Baroque painter of his time and also one of the key architects in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important decorator...

 who moved to Rome and became one of the towering figures of the Italian Baroque. Another pupil was Giovanni Battista Stefaneschi (1582–1659).