Placido Costanzi was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the late-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.

He was born to a family of gem-makers in Rome

Rome

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, where he became a pupil of Benedetto Luti

Benedetto Luti

Benedetto Luti was an Italian painter.-Biography:Luti was born in Florence. He moved to Rome in 1691 where he was patronized by Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, an enthusiast for the pastel portrait. Luti was one of the first artists to work in pastels as the final composition as...

 and painted mainly historical and devotional subjects. He painted a St. Camillus in Santa Maria Maddalena

Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi

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, in which he has aspired to the imitation of Domenichino. His Resuscitation of Tabitha in Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri

Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri

The Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs is a titular basilica church in Rome, built inside the frigidarium of the Baths of Diocletian. The Cardinal priest of the is William Henry Keeler.- The basilica :...

 replicates a mosaic in St. Peter's Basilica

St. Peter's Basilica

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. He also painted in fresco the ceilings of the tribunes in Santa Maria in Vallicella

Santa Maria in Vallicella

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 and San Gregorio

San Gregorio

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, and was much employed in painting figures in the landscapes of other artists, particularly in those of Jan Frans van Bloemen

Jan Frans van Bloemen

Jan Frans van Bloemen was a Flemish landscape painter of the Baroque period.Born in Antwerp, van Bloemen was a younger brother of Pieter van Bloemen, who had left for Rome in 1674, where Jan Frans joined him in 1689. In 1690 a third painting brother, Norbert van Bloemen , joined them as well...

 (Orizonte). Costanzi also traveled to France and Spain.

Costanzi painted a portrait of George Keith

George Keith

George Keith was a Scottish missionary.-Life:Born in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to a Presbyterian family, he received an M.A. from the University of Aberdeen...

, Earl Mareschal of Scotland, in Rome in 1752, now in the National Portrait Gallery, and St. Pancras & Infant Christ, now in the Dublin National Gallery.