Domenico Corvi (1721–1803)

• Was an Italian painter.
• Corvi was born in Viterbo.
• He moved on to Rome to work under Francesco Mancini, working in a Roman milieu.
• In 1750 he won first prize at the Accademia di San Luca, to which he was elected a full member in 1756.
• Also in 1756 Corvi returned to his native Viterbo to take part in the decoration of the church of the Gonfalone, in collaboration with Vincenzo Strigelli and Anton Angelo Falaschi.
• His first major set of independent works in Rome were a series of canvases completed in 1758 and currently in Vedana.
• In the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, he worked on a cycle glorifying the Colonna family, executing two scenes from the Life of the Blessed Margherita Colonna.
• In 1766 Corvi was in Turin to paint Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy, Expelling the Plague with the Lamp of the Madonna delle Grazie in 1630.
• Corvi’s greatest private patrons were the Borghese family, who employed him on a fixed salary for almost a decade.
• His pupils included Giuseppe Cades, Francesco Alberi and Vincenzo Camuccini.
• Corvi died in Rome in 1803.

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