Bernardino Capitelli (1589–1639) was an Italian painter and etcher of the

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period. He was born in

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. He became a pupil of

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, and then of

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, and between the years 1622 and 1637 was active in both at

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and at Siena. Among his etchings are a ''Portrait of Alessandro Casolani'', a ''St. Anthony of Padua'' (1637), a ''Marriage of St. Catharine'' after

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, a nocturnal ''Repose in Egypt'' after Rutilio Manetti, a ''Lot and his Daughters'' after Manetti. He also made a ''Ceres drinking in the Cottage of the old'' and a set of twelve plates of the ''Life of St. Bernard of Siena''. He also etched a set of friezes and basso-relievi, among them, the Aldobrandini Marriage from an antique painting. Capitelli overcame his shortcomings as a draughtsman and achieved the unique position of virtually the only tenebrist etcher in Italy. The use of abrupt contrasts of light and dark is characteristic of Capitelli's work.

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I carri delle sei contrade, che comparuero splendidamente in teatro alla luce di ser.o Sole, ue ono hora p rlor disauentura oscuramente delineati nell'ombre confuse de miei debili intagli ... Siena il dì marzo 1632, deuotiss.o ser.e Bernardino Capitelli, 1632. 1589 births 1639 deaths Painters from Siena 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub