Michele Pace del Campidoglio

Michele Pace del Campidoglio (1625-1669) was an Italian painter of still-life depicting fruit and flowers.

Still life, undated, private collection

Biography

Pace del Campidoglio was born in Rome or Vitorchiano in 1625. He was called 'Di Campidoglio' from an office he held in the Campidoglio, or Capitol, at Rome. There was a fine picture by him in the collection of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim, and many others are to be found in England. He died in 1669 in Rome.^[1]

References

1. Dipinti del barocco romano da Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia By Aa.Vv., page 74.

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1889). "Pace, Michelangelo, called Di Campidoglio". In Armstrong, Sir Walter; Graves, Robert Edmund (eds.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (L–Z). Vol. II (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.