Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations.

1 November 1596

Born on the same birth day (1 November): Aishwarya Rai Bachchan • Alofiana Khan-Pereira • Bill Woodrow • Bruce Grocott, Baron Grocott • Edmund Blunden • F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich • James Ward-Prowse • Jan Brożek • Jan Davis • Joe Caldwell • Johnny Indrisano • Margaret Taylor-Burroughs • Mark Hughes • Matt Moulson • Michał Sopoćko • William Merritt Chase • Yossef Gutfreund