Cassiano dal Pozzo

Cassiano dal Pozzo
Jan van den Hoecke, Portrait of Cassiano dal Pozzo
Born21 February 1588 Edit this on Wikidata
Turin, Duchy of Savoy
Died22 October 1657 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 69)
Rome, Papal States
Resting placeSanta Maria sopra Minerva Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater
OccupationScientist, classical scholar Edit this on Wikidata

Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588 – 22 October 1657)[1] was an Italian scholar and patron of arts. The secretary of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, he was an antiquary in the classicizing circle of Rome, and a long-term friend and patron of Nicolas Poussin, whom he supported from his earliest arrival in Rome: Poussin in a letter declared that he was "a disciple of the house and the museum of cavaliere dal Pozzo."[2] A doctor with interests in the proto-science of alchemy, a correspondent of major figures like Galileo, a collector of books and master drawings, dal Pozzo was a node in the network of European scientific figures.

  1. ^ "Cassianus a Puteo" in scholarly circles. "A Puteo" in Latin, "dal Pozzo" in Italian, have the same literal meaning, "from the well".
  2. ^ Quoted in Walter Friedlaender, Nicolas Poussin: A New Approach (New York: Abrams) 1964, p. 19.