Bartolomeo Gennari (10 July 1594 – 29 January 1661) was an

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painter. His painting style is consistent with the Bolognese School of painting.

Biography

Gennari was the son of the painter

Benedetto Gennari Benedetto Gennari (1563–1610) was an Italian painter of the early- Baroque period, active mainly in Ferrara and Cento. His birthplace is poorly recorded. He adopted a style influenced by Caravaggio, and by age 19, was working in the househol ...

and Giulia Bovi. His baptism was recorded in the collegiate church of in

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''Io Ercole Dondini Arciprete etc. ho battizato Bertolomio filiolo di M. Benedetto Genari et la Consorte Mad. Julia Buovi, et fu tenuto da M. Agustino di Faci et la Comar Mad. Jacoma Burgnona li 10 de Julio 1594.''In J. A. Calvi, Notizie della vita ... 1808, p. 51

Together with his younger brother

Ercole Gennari Ercole Gennari (10 March 1597 - 27 June 1658) was an Italian Renaissance drawer and painter. Son of the painter Benedetto Gennari and Julia Bovi, Ercole was baptized in the collegiate church of San Biagio, in Cento. He originally studied to be ...

(1597-1658), he was a lifetime associate of the

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painter

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vig ...

, from whom, he copied several works. He died in

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and was buried in the church of San Nicolò of Bologna Albari.

Works

Among his works are ''Saint Thomas'', which was formerly displayed the church of the Most Holy Rosary of Hundred and is now in the Pinacoteca of the town. He has also painted ''Madonna and Child with St. Felix of Cantalice'', which is preserved in the Pinacoteca Comunale di Cesena. The painting ''St. John the Evangelist Preaches to his Disciples'' is in the church of San Filippo Neri. One of his students was the

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painter Giuseppe Maria Galleppini.

References

* JA Calvi, News of the life and works of the knight Giovanni Francesco Barbieri Guercino, Bologna 1808 * The School of Guercino, edited by E. Negro, M. and N. Pirondini Roio, with a preface by DM Stone, Modena 2004 Painters from Bologna Italian Renaissance painters 1594 births 1661 deaths Italian male painters People from Cento 17th-century Italian painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub