Cesare Gennari (12 December 1637 – 11 February 1688) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period. His ''Saint Mary Magdalene'' is in the Pinacoteca Civica di Cento. His ''Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Nicholas of Bari'' is at the

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. In his later work Cesare "shed all traces of Guercinesque idiom, adopting instead the courtly accents of St James's and Saint-Germain".

Biography

Son of

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 ...

and born at

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, he was trained in the studio of his maternal uncle, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called "Guercino", in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

. Cesare's uncle,

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 his brother, Benedetto II Gennari (1633–1715), were also painters in the circle of Guercino. Cesare and the younger Benedetto were heirs of Guercino's studio, papers and effects, preserved for some time at Casa Gennari, Bologna. He married Francesca Ripa, and had two sons, Gianfrancesco and Filippo.Rusconi 1861. Among his pupils was

Ercole Gaetano Bertuzzi Ercole Gaetano Bertuzzi (Bologna, 1668–1710) was an Italian painter of history during the late Baroque period. Biography He studied under Cesare Gennari, and became a member of the Accademia Clementina of Bologna. He painted some rooms in the p ...

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* Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters 1641 births 1688 deaths Italian male painters People from Cento 17th-century Italian painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub