Bolognese school
The Bolognese school of painting, also known as the school of Bologna, flourished between the 16th and 17th centuries in Bologna, which rivalled Florence and Rome as the centre of painting in Italy. Its most important representatives include the Carracci family, including Ludovico Carracci and his two cousins, the brothers Agostino and Annibale Carracci. Later, it included other Baroque painters: Domenichino and Lanfranco, active mostly in Rome, eventually Guercino and Guido Reni, and Accademia degli Incamminati in Bologna, which was run by Lodovico Carracci.
Bolognese school
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- 1500
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The Bolognese school of painting, also known as the school of Bologna, flourished between the 16th and 17th centuries in Bologna, which rivalled Florence and Rome as the centre of painting in Italy. Its most important representatives include the Carracci family, including Ludovico Carracci and his two cousins, the brothers Agostino and Annibale Carracci. Later, it included other Baroque painters: Domenichino and Lanfranco, active mostly in Rome, eventually Guercino and Guido Reni, and Accademia degli Incamminati in Bologna, which was run by Lodovico Carracci.
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Certain artistic conventions, which over time became traditionalist, had been developed in Rome during the first decades of the 16th century. The Carracci studio sought innovation or invention, seeking new ways to break away from traditional modes of painting while continuing to look for inspiration from their literary contemporaries; the studio formulated a style that was distinguished from the recognised manners of art in their time. This style was seen as both systematic and imitative, borrowing particular motifs from the past Roman schools of art and innovating a modernistic approach.
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• Country — Italy • Location — Bologna • Yearsactive — 16th–17th centuries • Illustration — Portrait likely to be of Isabella d'Este, attributed to Francesco Francia, 1511 • Illustration — Deposition of Christ by Prospero Fontana, 1563 • Illustration — Domenichino, Saint Cecilia Distributing Alms, fresco, 1612–15, San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
Period of activity: 1501–1600
Period of activity: 1501–1600
• Francesco Francia (1447–1517) • Amico Aspertini (1474–1552) • Girolamo da Treviso (1497–1544) • Pier Maria Pennacchi (1464 – before 1516) • Biagio Pupini (c.1490 - c. 1575) • Girolamo da Carpi (1501–1556) • Lorenzo Sabbatini (c. 1530 – 1576) • Denys Calvaert (1540–1619) • Pietro Faccini (1552–1614) • Prospero Fontana (1512–1597) • Lavinia Fontana (1552–1614) • Giovanni Francesco Bezzi (Nosadella) (1530–1571) • Bartolomeo Passerotti (1529–1592) • Bartolomeo Cesi (1556–1629) • Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) • Ludovico Carracci (1555–1619) • Agostino Carracci (1557–1602) • Carlo Bononi (1569 – c. 1632) • Sisto Badalocchio (1581 – c. 1647) • Camillo Procaccini (1551–1629)
1601–1650
1601–1650
• Angelo Michele Toni • Benedetto Gennari • Guido Reni (1575–1642) • Domenichino (1581–1641) • Francesco Albani (1578–1660) • Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino) (1591–1666) • Lionello Spada • Lucio Massari • Francesco Brizio • Giacomo Cavedone • Bartolomeo Schedoni • Francesco Gessi (1558–1649) • Simone Cantarini (Il Pesarese) (1612–1648) • Carlo Cignani (1628–1719) • Giovanni Antonio Burrini • Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole • Lorenzo Pasinelli (1629–1772) • Elisabetta Sirani (1638–1665) • Marcantonio Franceschini • Guido Cagnacci (1601–1663) • Giuseppe Maria Mazza (sculptor, 1653–1741) • Lorenzo Garbieri (1580–1654) • Domenico Maria Canuti (1620–1660) • Angelo Michele Colonna (1604–1687) • Agostino Mitelli (1609–1660) • Enrico Haffner (1640–1702) • Giovanni Maria Bibiena • Giovan Giacomo Monti • Giovanni Battista Viola • Alessandro Tiarini • Giovanni Andrea Donducci (il Mastelletta)
1650–1700 and after
1650–1700 and after
• Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747) • Donato Creti (1671–1749) • Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728–1781) • Gaetano Gandolfi (1734–1802) • Giuseppe Marchesi (il Sansone; 1778–1867)
1850–1960 (approximately) The landscape painters
1850–1960 (approximately) The landscape painters
Source: • Luigi Bertelli (1833–1916) • Alessandro Scorzoni (1858–1933) • Flavio Bertelli (1865–1941) • Giovanni Secchi (1876–1950) • Guglielmo Pizzirani (1886–1971) • Antonino Sartini (1889–1954)
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- 1.Bolognese school art. Encyclopedia Britannica.
- 2.Commune di Roma, Les musées capitolins, guide, .
- 3.Silvia. Meloni. Biographie d’Arcangelo Resani. Mina Gregori. Le Musée des Offices et le Palais Pitti. Paris. Editions Place des Victoires. 2000. 663. 2-84459-006-3.
- 4.Paesaggisti bolognesi, 1900 – 1950. Dipinti Antichi Galleria de` Fusari. 2017-11-20.
- 5.Biblioteca Salaborsa. 1954 - La mostra di Guido Reni inaugura le Biennali d'arte della Città di Bologna - Cronologia di Bologna dal 1796 a oggi. Biblioteca salaborsa.
- 6."Da Cimabue a Morandi. Felsina Pittrice", a Palazzo Fava la mostra curata da Vittorio Sgarbi Iperbole. www.comune.bologna.it.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Stendhal : Écoles italiennes de Peinture. I. École de Florence - Ecole Romaine - École de Mantoue - École de Crémone. II. École de Parme - École de Venise - École de Bologne. III. École de Bologne. Établissement du texte et préface par Henri Martineau, Paris : Le Divan. 1932.
- Olivier Bonfait, Les tableaux et les pinceaux : la naissance de l'école bolonaise, 1680-1780, École française de Rome, Rome ; diff. de Boccard, Paris, 2000, 525 p. (texte remanié d'une thèse de doctorat d'Histoire de l'art soutenue à l'Université Paris 4 en 1992).
- AA. VV., Nell'età di Correggio e dei Carracci: Pittura in Emilia dei secoli XVI e XVII, Nuova Alfa Editoriale, Bologna, 1986.
- R. Longhi, Momenti della pittura bolognese in Da Cimabue a Morandi, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milano, 1982.
- M. Troilo, Tra capolavori e falsi. Considerazioni economiche sul mercato dell'arte nella Bologna del Settecento in «Strenna Storica Bolognese», anno LVII, 2007, pp. 449-465.
- Raimond Van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, Volume 4 (1924), pp 394-481.
- Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief. The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. 1986.
- Les musées capitolins, guide. Mondadori Electa S.p.A. 2013. 978-88-370-6260-6.
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