Clemente Bocciardo (1620–1658) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

. He was born in Genoa. He was also called ''Clementone'' because of his large size. He was a pupil of Bernardo Strozzi and accompanied Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione to Rome. He painted a ''Martyrdom of St. Sebastian'' for the church of the Carthusians in

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. Also painted in Florence.

Life and Work

He was born in Genoa in 1620, he was a pupil of Bernardo Strozzi, but he left his city very young to complete his education, together with Castiglione, first in Rome then in Florence. In Genoa, where he painted, according to Ratti, a Last Supper for the oratory of St. Germano (later in Santa Maria della Pietà) and a Corpus Domini for the church of St. Andrea, nothing remained of him. Leaving Florence, at least from 1639 he stayed in

, where he died in 1658. He executed ''Baptist'' (signed and dated 1639) in the Del Pozzo chapel in Camposanto. One of the first works painted in

was ''St. Carlo Borromeo'' in St. Frediano, and ''Madonna and Saints'' in the church of St. Matteo. Dispersed are two paintings with ''the Saints Peter and Paul'', who were still in the cathedral in 1912 over the little porticoes leading to the terrace of the relics, a canvas with ''St. Benedetto'' on the high altar of the church of the same name (now deconsecrated), ''St. Sebastiano'' in Charterhouse, an ''Immaculate Conception'' in Santa Croce in Fossabanda. Some works, now dispersed, were in churches of Brescia. In Santa Maria delle Grazie, an altarpiece with ''St. Ignatius''. Averoldi cited a shovel with ''Madonna with the Saints Michele and Antonio'', in Saints Faustino and Giovita. The

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school had an impact that was anything but decisive in the pictorial formation of Bocciardo, and perhaps just indicative. Having chosen, on his pilgrimage to Rome and Florence, an itinerary so divergent from the master, he rather developed his interest in the novelties brought from Rome, where he had been among the admirers of

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...

. In fact, he spent a short time in Florence, where the competition was still strong, while he ended up settling permanently in

, where he acquired fame and important commissions.

References

* ;Specific 1620 births 1658 deaths 17th-century Genoese people 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Genoa Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub