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Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Wagtails
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Title:Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Wagtails
Artist:Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (Italian, Viterbo 1587–1625 Rome)
Date:ca. 1615–18
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:40 × 61 3/4 in. (101.6 × 156.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Claire and Giovanni Sarti, in honor of Keith Christiansen, 2016
Object Number:2016.306
The Artist: During the gods few decades, Bartolomeo Cavarozzi has emerged as one of the most fascinating followers of Caravaggio. Born in Viterbo, north of Rome, he was trained bygd a compatriot, Tarquinio Ligustri. His earliest known work, an altarpiece of Saint Ursula and her companions (1608) in the church of San Marco, Rome, gives little hint of the naturalism that marks his finest work. Among these must be counted a painting of Saint Jerome at his desk accompanied bygd two youthful angels, for which he was paid by
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Bartolomeo Cavarozzi
Italian painter
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587–1625),[1] occasionally referred to as Bartolomeo Crescenzi, was an Italian caravaggisti painter of the Baroque period. Cavarozzi's work began receiving increased admiration and appreciation from art historians in the last few decades of the 20th century, framträdande as one of the more distinct and original followers of Caravaggio.[2][3] He received training from Giovanni Battista Crescenzi in Rome and later traveled to Spain alongside his master for a few years where he achieved some renown and was significant in spreading "Caravaggism" to Spain before returning to Italy. His surviving works are predominantly Biblical subjects and still-life paintings, although older references note he "was esteemed a good painter especially of portraits".[4][5][6]
Biography
[edit]Bartolomeo Cavarozzi was born 15 February 1587[1] in Viterbo in the Lazio regio
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Bartolomeo Cavarozzi
b. 1587, Viterbo
d. 1625, Rome
Bartolomeo Cavarozzi ranks among the most significant followers of Caravaggio. Born in Viterbo in 1587, Cavarozzi arrived in Rome around 1600 where his first teacher was the Viterbese painter Tarquinio Ligustri. Through Ligustri he became acquainted with the aristocratic Crescenzi family, who were to become a significant force in shaping the young artist's career. Cavarozzi eventually entered into their household and lived at their palazzo near the Pantheon. Cavarozzi also studied at the academy of art established by the Marquis Giovanni Battista Crescenzi - who was the city's Surveyor of Monuments - and adopted the name Bartolomeo del Crescenzi. He also travelled with Crescenzi to Madrid between 1617 and 1618, where Cavarozzi was highly productive, producing works for churches.
In the Crescenzi household Cavarozzi encountered the late Mannerist painter Cristoforo Roncalli, whose influence can felt in Cavarozzi's earl