Jacopo Alessandro Calvi - Chryses Vainly Soliciting the Return of Chryseis before the Tent of Agamemnon

Jacopo Alessandro Calvi (23 February 1740 – 15 May 1815) was an Italian painter and art critic who painted sacred and historical subjects in a late-

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 ...

style.

Biography

He was born 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 ...

. He became deaf at the age of eight years, and due to his short stature, he was nicknamed ''il Sordino''. He trained with

Giuseppe Varotti Giuseppe Varotti (Bologna, 1715- Bologna, 1780) was an Italian painter, active depicting sacred and historical subjects in a late- Baroque or Rococo style. Biography He trained with his father, Pier Paolo Varotti (1686-1732), a follower of Gius ...

and later with Giampietro Cavazzoni Zanotti, from whom he also learned poetry. Among Calvi's writing are: *Verses and Prose in quarto about a series of paintings owned by the Marquis Filippo Hercolani. Bologna 1780. *''La Certosa di Bologna descritta nelle sue pitture''. Bologna 1793 by

Luigi Crespi Luigi Crespi (January 23, 1708 – July 2, 1779) was an Italian painter, and art merchant and historian. He was the son of the prominent Bolognese painter, Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Biography He trained with his father and completed a few altarpi ...

in 1772; with notes and corrections by Calvi. *''Notizie della vita e delle opere del Cav. Gian Francesco Barbieri, detto il

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 ...

da Cento''. Bologna 1808. *''Memorie della vita e delle opere di Francesco Raibolini, detto il Francia''. Bologna 1812. Calvi painted in the cloister of the church of

San Michele in Bosco San Michele in Bosco is a religious complex in Bologna, central Italy, including the church with the same name and the annexed Olivetan monastery. The buildings of the monastery were acquired in 1955 by the municipality of Bologna, to house an o ...

and the Church of Sant'Agostino, Ferrara. Anna Mignani was one of his pupils.Guida del forestiere per la città di Bologna e suoi sobborghi
By Girolamo Bianconi, page 516-517. He died in Bologna.

References

1740 births 1815 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian art historians Painters from Bologna 19th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub