Giacomo Cavedone (also called ''Giacomo Cavedoni'') (1577–1660) was an Italian

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painter of the Bolognese School.

Life

He belonged to the generation of

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-inspired or trained painters that included Giovanni Andrea Donducci (Mastelletta);

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and

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. He was born in

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, near

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, and was able to obtain a three-year stipend to apprentice with

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and

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. In the autumn of 1609, he sojourned in Rome for a year to work under

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, and is known to have worked in

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from 1612 to 1613. He became one of

Ludovico Carracci Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light th ...

's primary assistants, and upon Ludovico's death in 1619 became ''Caposindaco'' of the ''

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''. His career as a painter was cut short by a set of misfortunes; these included a 1623 fall from a church scaffold and, in 1630, the death of his wife and children from the plague. The ''1911 Britannica'' (where he is incorrectly called ''Jacopo Cavendone'') claims his wife was accused of witchcraft. He lived until 1660, and died in poverty. His principal works are the ''Adoration of the Magi'', the ''Four Doctors'', ''Last Supper''; and his masterpiece, the large altar painting in the Pinacoteca di Bologna, ''Virgin and Child in Glory with San Petronio and Saint Alo'' (1614). His paintings have a traditional

-inspired structure, with a Madonna and her wafting robes hovering above donors, with an unusually rich

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esque coloring for an Emilian painter. Among his pupils were

Giovanni Andrea Sirani Giovanni Andrea Sirani (4 September 1610 – 21 May 1670) was an Italian Baroque painter from Bologna. He is best known as the father of the female painter Elisabetta Sirani. Sirani trained initially with Giacomo Cavedone, then worked in the ...

, Giovanni Battista Cavazza, Ottavio Corradi, and

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Partial anthology

*''Saint Stephen in Glory'', (1601,

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, Modena) *''Deposition'', (Santuario di Caravaggio) *''Death of Saint Peter Martyr'', (

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) *''Baptism of Christ'', (1611–12, San Pietro Martire, Modena) *''Sant'Alo Altarpiece'', (1614, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna) *''Discovery of Miraculous Crucifix of Beirut'', (1622,

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) *''Adoration of the Shepherds'', (

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) *''Adoration of the Kings'', (San Paolo Maggiore, Bologna) *''Seated Warrior Holding a Sword and Shield'', (drawing, c. 1612,

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) *''Sketch for The Last Supper; verso: The Conversion of St. Paul'',

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) *''The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes'' (drawing, 1611–1614,

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, Cambridge) *''Judith of Holofernes'' & ''Complaint of Job'

References

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Sources

*''The Art of Corregio and the Carracci.'' Monograph (1986-7) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cavedone, Giacomo 1577 births 1660 deaths Artists from the Province of Modena 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters People from Sassuolo