Giuseppe Crespi (born 1665 in Bologna, Italy; died 1747), called Lo Spagnuolo, was a late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. He was nicknamed "the Spanish One" because of his habit of wearing tight clothes. Events March 4 - Start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. ... Bologna (from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ... // Events January 31 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital April 9 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain May 14 - First battle of Cape... A painter is a person who paints woodwork, walls, etc. ... The Bolognese School of painting flourished in Bologna, Italy between the 16th and 17th centuries and rivalled Florence and Rome as the center of painting. ...

He was an eclectically trained painter, who worked with or under Angelo Toni, Domenico Maria Canuti, Burrini and Carlo Cignani. He journeyed to Venice, but, surprisingly, never to Rome. He was able to travel to Florence and gain the patronage of the Grand Duke Ferdinand I de Medici using the religious canvas of Massacre of the Innocents as an introducion . He was a good colorist and a facile executant, and by report accustomed to employ the camera obscura with great success in the treatment of light and shadow. He was a clever portrait painter and a brilliant caricaturist; and his etchings after Rembrandt and Salvator are in some demand. At the beginning of the 20th century, and the Dresden gallery possesses his celebrated series of the Seven Sacraments. True to his ecleticism is the naturalistic Saint John Nepomunk confessing the Queen of Swe Carlo Cignani (1628-1719) was an Italian Baroque painter. ... Location within Italy Venice (Italian: Venezia), the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice, 45°26′ N 12°19′ E, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). ... The Holy Innocents by Giotto di Bondone. ... Camera obscura From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Self-portrait by Vincent Van Gogh A portrait is a painting, photograph, or other artistic representation of a person. ... A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing caricatures. ... Etching is an intaglio method of printmaking in which the image is incised into the surface of a metal plate using an acid. ... Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669) is generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art history and the most important United Provinces (Netherlands) painter of the seventeenth century. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Dresden is the capital city of the German federal state of Saxony, is situated in a valley on the river Elbe. ... The practice of the Roman Catholic Church includes seven sacraments. ...

Crespi is best known now as one of the main proponents of baroque genre painting in Italy. Italians, till 17th century, mainly ignored depictions of daily life in painting, concentrating mainly on exalted themes, if not portraiture of the mighty. Crespi at his best, is a Bolognese Pieter de Hooch. In this he learned from Carracci and influenced Piazzetta and Ceruti. Genre painting, also called genre scene or petit genre, attempts to depict aspects of everyday life, via portraits of ordinary people engaged in common activities. ... Musical Party in a Courtyard (1677) Pieter de Hooch (pronounced Hoak, also spelled Hoogh or Hooghe) (1629 - 1684) was a genre painter during the Dutch Golden Age. ...

Partial Anthology of Works

• The Marriage at Cana (Art Institute of Chicago)
• Holy Family (1688,parish church of Bergantino)
• Madonna del Carmine
• Temptation of St. Anthony, (1690, San Niccolò degli Albari, Bologna)
• Aeneas, The Sibyl and Charon, (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
• Hecuba blinding Polynestor, Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts
• Tarquin and Lucretia, (National Gallery, Washington D.C.)
• The Triumph of Hercules, The Four Seasons, The Three Fates, Neptune and Diana (frescoes of Palazzo Pepoli Campogrande, Bologna)
• The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret of Cortona (1701, Duomo, Bologna)
• Massacre of the Innocents (1706, Galleria degli Uffizi)
• The Fair at Poggio a Caiano, (1709, Galleria degli Uffizi)
• Village Fair (Brera, Milan) [1]
• Series of The Seven Sacraments (1712, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)

  Baptism

  Confirmation [2]

  Marriage

  Confession

  Extreme Unction

  Ordination

• Meeting between James Stuart and the Prince Albani (Národní Galerie in Prague)
• Annunciation with Saints (1722, Cathedral of Sarzana)
• The Crucifixion (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
• The Assumption of the Virgin (1730, Archivio Arcivescovile, Lucca)
• two altarpieces for the church of the Gesù,Ferrara (1728–1729)
• four altarpieces for the parish church of San Paolo d’Argon. Bergamo (1728–1729)
• Martyrdom of Saint John the Evangelist
• Joshua Stopping the Sun, (1737, Colleoni Chapel,Bergamo)
• Martyrdom of Saint Peter of Arbuès (1737, Collegio di Spagna, Bologna)
• Self-portrait (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna),
• The Family of Zanobio Troni(Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna)
• The Lute Player, (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• The Hunter, (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna)
• The Messenger (Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe)
• Courtyard Scene (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna)
• Searching for Fleas, (Uffizi)[3] and (Museo Nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa)[4]
• The Woman Washing Dishes (Galleria degli Uffizi)
• Saint John Nepomuk Hears Confession from the Queen of Bohemia (Turin, Galleria Sabauda),

References

• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.