Michelangelo Cerquozzi
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Michelangelo Cerquozzi (1602 - 1660). was an Italian Baroque painter.
Born in Rome, He is best known for small canvases of genre scenes, and for being one of the Italian proponents of the Bamboccianti style practiced by a Dutch painter in Rome, Pieter Van Laer. Cerquozzi joined the Accademia di San Luca in 1634; however over the next two decades, many prominent painters, such as Andrea Sacchi in Rome, Francesco Albani and Guido Reni in Bologna, disdained this "low-class" thematic. In addition, Cerquozzi was a rival of a young Salvator Rosa.
His friends included Domenico Viola, Pietro da Cortona, Giacinto Brandi, Paulus Bor and Cornelis Bloemaert. He became known for making battle pictures, and was nicknamed Michelangelo delle Battaglie. In 1647, he collaborated with Jan Miel, Giacomo Borgognone, and others on illustrations for second volume of Famiano Strada's De Bello Belgico celebrating Alessandro Farnese's campaigns in the Netherlands for the Spanish emperor. Cerquozi also received commissions from Cardinal Rapaccioli and modenese Count Camillo Carandini. He painted a canvas in 1648 on the Revolt of Masaniello. After 1647, he collaborated neapolitan Viviano Codazzi.
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- Web Gallery of Art
- Haskell, Francis (1993). Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italy, 1980, Yale University Press, p 136-141.
