The Maritime Vision of Agostino Tassi Agostino Tassi remains one of the most complex and enigmatic figures of the Italian Baroque era, a painter whose brush captured the serene majesty of the Mediterranean while his personal life was mired in the shadows of scandal. Born in Perugia around 1578, though he famously claimed Roman origins to bolster his social prestige, Tassi’s artistic identity was forged through a profound connection to the sea and the atmospheric light of the Italian coast. His early training, likely influenced by the works of Paolo Brill, instilled in him a mastery of disegn…