Which Italian painter is best known for his ceiling fresco of Aurora?
Aurora (Guido Reni) Aurora (Guido Reni) L'Aurora ("The Aurora") is a large Baroque ceiling fresco painted in 1614 by Guido Reni for the Casino, or garden house, adjacent to the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi, in Rome. The work is considered Reni's fresco masterpiece. The casino and the paintings were commissioned by the Cardinal Scipione Borghese, a prominent art patron, and designed by Giorgio Vasanzio and Carlo Maderno, and the rear overlooks the Piazza del Quirinale in Rome. The facade is towards the small garden next to the palace. On the walls of the room are four frescoes of the "Seasons" by Paul Bril, and two
Francesco Cozza (painter) Francesco Cozza (painter) Francesco Cozza (1605 – 13 January 1682) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Cozza was born in Stilo in Calabria and died in Rome. As a young man, he went to Rome where he was apprenticed to Domenichino, with whom he traveled to Naples in 1634. He is best known for his expansive panegyric ceiling fresco, "Apotheosis of Pamphili House" (1667-1673) in the library of Palazzo Pamphili in Piazza Navona in Rome. During 1658 to 1659, he frescoed the "Stanza del Fuoco" in Palazzo Pamphili in Valmontone, working alongside Pier Francesco Mola, Gaspar Dughet, Mattia