Carlo Bononi

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Carlo Bononi (1569? - 1632) was an Italian painter. An 1876 book lists him among "the last artists of any eminence in Ferrara". [1]

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Biography

Guardian Angel, (late 1620s, National picture gallery at Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara) Carlo bonomi, angelo custode, 01.jpg
Guardian Angel, (late 1620s, National picture gallery at Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara)

Bononi was active mainly in his home territories of Emilia and Ferrara, and is considered to be a painter of the School of Ferrara. He studied under Giuseppe Mazzuoli, known as il Bastarolo. [1] He knew Guercino and was eulogized by Guido Reni as having a "bounty of a most honest life, a great knowledge of design, and strength in colorizing". Bononi rose to prominence in Ferrara after the death of the painter Scarsellino, and was subsequently called to Rome. He was initially buried in Santa Maria in Vado, for which he had helped decorate the ceiling with various canvases.

Among his pupils were Alfonso Rivarola (il Chenda), Giovanni Battista dalla Torre, and Camillo Berlinghieri. His nephew, Leonello Bononi was also a painter.

An important exhibition has been held at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in Autumn 2017.

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert (1876). In Venetia, Parma, the Emilia, the Marche, and morthern Tuscany. G. Routledge & sons. Page 175
  2. ↑ Sassu, Giovanni (1 February 2015). "Carlo Bononi e i colori "di cuore liquefatto"". MuseoinVita (in Italian). Retrieved 19 April 2017.

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