Giuseppe Passeri


Giuseppe Passeri was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native city of Rome.
Born the nephew of the painter Giovanni [Battista Passeri], Giuseppe trained in the studio of Carlo Maratta. Among the paintings by Giuseppe is St. Peter baptizes the Centurion, transferred to mosaic; the original was moved to a church of the Conventuali in Urbino.
Passeri painted the second chapel on the right in Santa [Caterina a Magnanapoli] in fresco from 1700 to 1703. In the same church, he also painted the altar paintings Three Archangels and Madonna of the Rosary.