Cesare Gennari (12 December 1637 – 11 February 1688) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque
The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...
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.
In his later work Cesare "shed all traces of Guercinesque idiom, adopting instead the courtly accents of St James's and Saint-Germain".
Biography
Son of
Ercole Gennari and born at
Cento
Cento (; Bolognese dialect, Northern Bolognese: ; Bolognese dialect, City Bolognese: ; Bolognese dialect, Centese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
History
The name Cento is a reference to the centur ...
, he was trained in the studio of his maternal uncle,
Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called "Guercino", in
Bologna
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. 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.
[Rusconi 1861.] Among his pupils was
Ercole Gaetano Bertuzzi.
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Painters from Bologna
Italian Baroque painters
1637 births
1688 deaths
Italian male painters
People from Cento
17th-century Italian painters
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