Michele Pace del Campidoglio

Still life, undated, private collection

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

Biography

Pace del Campidoglio was born in Rome or Vitorchiano in 1625. He was a scholar of Fioravanti, and 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

This article incorporates text from the article "PACE, Michelangelo, called Di Campidoglio" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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