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Giovanni Battista Crespi (23 December 1573 – 23 October 1632), called Il Cerano, was an
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Biography

He was born in Romagnano Sesia, the son of a painter, Raffaele Crespi, and moved to Cerano with his family some years later. In 1591 he is known to have been living in
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. True to the Counter-Reformation piety zealously expressed in Milanese art of his time, his paintings focus on mysteries and mystical episodes in saintly life. The crowded canvases and the angles recall Mannerism, but his paintings show an emotion that evokes common sentiments in Baroque art. Along with other artists, he completed a series of paintings ( Quadroni of St. Charles) of the life of St. Charles Borromeo

for the
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; an altarpiece with the ''Baptism of St. Augustine'' for
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; and a ''Mass of St. Gregory'' for the Basilica of San Vittore in
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(1615–17). Also see the nightmarish, ''St. Gregory Delivers the Soul of a Monk'' (1617), also in San Vittor

He was a scholar of considerable attainments and held a position of dignity in Cerano. In 1620 he was appointed the head of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Accademia Ambrosiana founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo. Among his pupils were
Daniele Crespi Daniele Crespi (159819 July 1630) was an Italian painter and draughtsman. He is regarded as one of the most original artists working in Milan in the 1620s. He broke away from the exaggerated manner of Lombard Mannerism in favour of an early B ...
, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, and
Melchiorre Gherardini Melchiorre Gherardini (1607–1668), known as Ceranino, was an Italian painter. Biography Born in Milan in 1607, Gherardini was closely linked in his artistic career to Giovan Battista Crespi, known as Cerano, his master and father-in-law. On ...
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External links


Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
an exhibition catalogue from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Crespi (see index) *http://www.verbanensia.org/quadro_details.asp?quID=18755 *http://www.verbanensia.org/quadro_details.asp?quID=16003 *http://www.verbanensia.org/quadro_details.asp?quID=15651


References

* 1573 births 1632 deaths People from the Romagnano Sesia 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters 16th-century Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors 17th-century Italian sculptors Painters from Milan Italian Mannerist architects Italian Mannerist painters Italian Mannerist sculptors {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub Catholic painters Catholic sculptors