Antonio Verrio was an Italian painter. He was responsible for introducing Baroque mural painting into England and served the Crown over a thirty-year period.
Self-portrait of Antonio Verrio circa 1705/6
La Transverbération de sainte Thérèse Church Saint-Exupère in Toulouse
Sketch for the Ceiling of the Banqueting House, Hampton Court Palace, about 1700, Antonio Verrio, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (E.1085–1916)
St. George's Hall, Windsor Castle, showing Verrio's murals of the 1680s, destroyed in the early nineteenth century
Lecce is a city in southern Italy and capital of the province of Lecce, with the second-highest population in the Apulia region. It is on the Salentine Peninsula, at the heel of the Italian Peninsula, and is over two thousand years old.
Clockwise from top left: Church of Santa Croce; Roman Theatre; the cathedral's bell tower; Lecce Cathedral ("Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta"); and Porta Napoli, in Viale Università
Piazza del Duomo
The Roman amphitheatre
Column of St Oronzo