Costanza Cattanio
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Costanza Cattanio (1602-1665) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
He was born in Ferrara. He first was a pupil of Ippolito Scarsellino, but afterwards followed the style of Guido Reni. He was so quarrelsome and turbulent a disposition that he passed the greater portion of his life in exile or in disgrace. This turbulence of his nature is evinced in many of his works, which generally represented soldiers and banditti, painted in a warm and menacing tone of colour. That he could, when so disposed, divest himself of this peculiarity, is evident from his pictures of The Flagellation, and the Ecce Homo, in the church of San Giorgio at Ferrara. His Christ praying on the Mount in the church of San Benedetto, and his Annunciation in the church of San Spirito, both in Ferrara.
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- Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 252.
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