Guido Cagnacci
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Guido Cagnacci (1601-1663) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, belonging to the Bolognese School.
Born in Santarcangelo di Romagna near Rimini, he died in Vienna in 1663. 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 sensuous representations of naked women from thigh upwards, including Lucretia, Cleopatra, and Mary Magdalene. This allies him to a strand of courtly painting, epitomized in Florence by Francesco Furini, Simone Pignoni and others. In 1650, he moved to Venice. In 1658, he traveled to Vienna, where he remained under patronage of the emperor Leopold I.
[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, Santarcangelo)
- Frescoes in Cappella della Madonna del Fuoco (Duomo, Forlì)
- Glory of Saints Valerian and Mercurial (Faenza)
- Leopold I portrait (Vienna)
- Calling of Saint Matthew (Museo della Città - 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). in National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries, 392-397.
