Carlo Bononi

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Carlo Bononi (1569 - c. 1632) was an Italian painter. Born and active mainly in Emilia and Ferrara, and considered to be mainly a painter of the School of Ferrara. He studied painting under Giuseppe Mazzuoli, known as il Bastarolo. Knew Guercino and was eulogized by Guido Reni as having a "bounty of a most honest life, a great knowledge of design, and strength in colorizing". Bononi rose to prominence in Ferrara when the painter Scarsellino died, and the former called to Rome. He was initially buried in Santa Maria in Vado, for which he had helped decorate the ceiling with various canvases.

Among his pupils was Alfonso Rivarola (il Chenda), Giovanni Battista dalla Torre, and Camillo Berlinghieri. His nephew, Leonello Bononi was also a painter.

[edit] Partial anthology of works

• Annunciation, (San Bartolomeo, Modena)
• Martyrdom of Saint Paul, (Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden)
• Madonna with Saints Maurelius and George, (Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna)
• Painting (San Paterniano, Fano)
• Miracle of San Gualberto, (San Orsola, Mantua)
• Ascension of Christ, (1617, San Salvatore, Bologna)
• Exaltation of the Name of God ceiling fresco decoration, (1617-21, Santa Maria in Vado, Ferrara)[1]
• Second of four chapels, (Basilica della Ghiara, Bologna)
• Saint Louis of Toulouse Praying for the end of the Plague (Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna)
• The Madonna of Loreto appearing to Saints John the Evangelist, Bartholemew, and James the Great,
• The Guardian Angel(late 1620s, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara)
• Saint Barbara

[edit] References

• http://www.fondazionemanodori.it/collez_bononi.htm
• 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, 379-85. 
• Camillo Laderchi (1856). La pittura ferrarese, memorie. Googlebooks, 148-153.