Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints Sebastian, John the Evangelist, and Roch
Pasquale Ottino Italian

Baroque Painter · Active 1605 – 1605
Pasquale Ottino Italian is among the painters whose work defines the Baroque era. Paintale holds 1 of Italian’s works in its collection, spanning themes of religion & mythology.
Where to see the work: Art Institute of Chicago.
Pasquale Ottino Italian
Working at the height of the Baroque period, Pasquale Ottino Italian produced a body of work that remains foundational to Western art. The recurring themes across the surviving paintings — religion & mythology — show an artist returning to the same questions about the human figure, light, and the moral weight of a scene that Baroque painting was uniquely equipped to answer.
Today, paintings by Pasquale Ottino Italian are held in major institutions including Art Institute of Chicago. Each work on Paintale unpacks the subject, the symbolism, the technique, and the long afterlife of the painting — why it was commissioned, what its earliest viewers were expected to see, and why it still rewards close looking today.