Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari

Who was Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari?

Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, also known simply as Giuseppe Chiari, was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mostly in Rome.

Born in either Lucca or Rome, he was one of the main assistants, along with Giuseppe Passeri and Andrea Procaccini, in the studio of an elder Carlo Maratta. He frescoed rooms in the Palazzo Barberini to allegorical sketches of Bellori of Aurora leading Apollo and chariot with time and seasons with extensive interweaving of heraldic symbols, including bees; two-headed eagle alighting on globe with blue and white stripes