Corvi, Domenico

Corvi, Domenico an Italian painter, was born at Viterbo in 1623, and studied under Mancini. He was one of the most eminent modern Roman masters, and his best works are his night-pieces, as his Nativity, in the Church of the Assumption. He died at Rome in 1703. See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.