Cesare Gennari
Cesare Gennari (12 December 1637 – 11 February 1688) was an Italian painter of the Baroque 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 Pinacoteca di Bologna.
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Cesare Gennari
Luigi Crespi · Luigi Crespi, Vite de' pittori Bolognesi non descritte nella Felsina pittrice, Roma, Marco Pagliarini, 1769 · Public domain
- Name
- Cesare Gennari
- Born
- 12 December 1637
- Birthplace
- Cento, Italy
- Died
- 11 February 1688
- Place of death
- Bologna, Italy
- Known for
- Painting
- Movement
- Baroque
- Occupation
- painter.
- Fields
- painting.
- Movements
- Baroque.
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Biography
Biography
In his later work, Cesare "shed all traces of Guercinesque idiom, adopting instead the courtly accents of St James's and Saint-Germain".
Pierre Esparvier and Anna Teresa Messieri are recorded as having studied under Cesare Gennari. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Work by Cesare Gennari is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Hermitage Museum, National Museum in Warsaw, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Nantes Museum of Arts.
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For the place of death of Cesare Gennari, Bologne (Italie) is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France and Bologna by the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
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• Name — Cesare Gennari • Birth Name — Cesare Gennari • Born — 12 December 1637 • Birthplace — Cento, Italy • Died — 11 February 1688 • Place of death — Bologna, Italy • Known for — Painting • Movement — Baroque
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Cesare Gennari (1637 – 1688) was a painter and draughtsman. Cesare Gennari was born in Cento, Italy, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Getty Union List of Artist Names.
Biography
Biography
Son of Ercole Gennari and born at Cento, he was trained in the studio of his maternal uncle, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called "Guercino", in Bologna. Cesare's uncle, Benedetto Gennari, 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. Among his pupils was Ercole Gaetano Bertuzzi.
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1637
Cesare Gennari born at Cento.
1688
Cesare Gennari died at Bologna.
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- 1.Dates in A. Rusconi, La municipale Pinacoteca di Cento 1861:12 : "VIII Gennari Cesare Centese"
- 2.Brevi indicazioni della Galleria de' quadri..., 1867: no. 287.
- 3.C.T. van Serooskerken, reviewing the Guercino exhibition "Guercino. Bologna, Cento and Frankfurt",The Burlington Magazine, 1991:865.
- 4.Guercino's sister, Lucia Barbieri, married Ercole Gennari in 1628.
- 5.E. Negro, M. Pirondini and N. Roio, La scuola del Guercino, 2004.
- 6.Rusconi 1861.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Gennari, Cesar Gennari, Cesare Genari, Ces.e Gennari and Caesar Gonnari. He was the child of Ercole Gennari and Lucia Barbieri. Formation and teaching. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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Museo del Prado, Hermitage Museum, National Museum in Warsaw and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
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