Guido Cagnacci
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Guido Cagnacci ( 1601-1663) was a late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Born in Santarcangelo, he died in Vienna in 1663. Born near Rimini in Santarcangelo, he worked in Rimini from 1627-1642. Prior to that he had been in Rome, in contact with Guercino, Guido Reni, and Simon Vouet. He may have had an apprenticeship with the elderly Ludovico Carracci. He is know late in life for titillating and sensuous representations of naked women from thigh upwards, including Lucretia, Cleopatra, and Magdalenes.
[edit] Partial Anthology of Works
- Procession of the Holy Sacrament (Salucedio)
- Christ with Saints Joseph and Eligius (1635)
- Madonna with saints Andre Corsini Teresa and Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1640, Santracangelo)
- Frescoes in Capella della Madonna del Fuoco (Duomo, Forli)
- Glory of Saints Valerian and Mercurial (Faenzia)
- Leopold I portrait (Vienna)
- Calling of Saint Matthew (Musei Comunale de Rimini)
- Allegorical Naked Figure (private)
- Death of Cleopatra (Kunshistorische Museum, Gemaldegalerie, Vienna)
- Death of Lucretia [1]
[edit] References
- Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief) (1986). National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, 392-397.
