Ricerc@Sapienza

Among the Florentine artists working in the Papal City around the turn of the seventeenth century, Agostino Ciampelli (1565-1630) held a prominent position, contributing to the numerous projects of the time a painting that stood out for its style, content and narrative clarity. Apart from his Florentine training with Santi di Tito, Ciampelli’s success in post-Tridentine Rome was also guaranteed by his principal protector, Cardinal Alessandro de’ Medici (later Pope Leo XI); as part of the Oratorian circle, the prelate was a friend of Filippo Neri and close to Cardinal Cesare Baronio. During the pontificate of Clement VIII Ciampelli worked in Santa Prassede, Santa Maria in Trastevere and Sant’Agnese fuori le mura, among others, showing he was capable of adapting himself to archaic 13th-century precedents though retrieval and continuity