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Bernardo Cavallino (1616-1656)
Professions: Painter
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Bernardo Cavallino (Naples 1616-1656)
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Bernardo Cavallino (Napoli, 1616-1656)
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* BERNARDO CAVALLINO NAPLES 1618-1654
Bernardo Cavallino Biography
(b Naples, bapt 25 Aug 1616; d Naples, ?1656). Italian painter and draughtsman. He was the most individual and most poetic painter active in Naples during the first half of the 17th century. He painted mainly small cabinet pictures, on canvas or on copper, for dealers and for highly cultivated private patrons; he had few public commissions and apparently never painted any large-scale decorations for private or ecclesiastical patrons. His subject-matter is largely derived from the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha, Tasso and from Roman history and mythology. Documentary evidence for his life and work is almost non-existent, and he remains enigmatic and elusive as a historical figure. Yet as a painter he is strikingly distinctive, uniting a refinement and virtuosity of brushwork with an intensely naturalistic observation of surfaces, and complex and dramatic compositions with an extraordinary brilliance of palette. Only eight pictures are signed, initialled or inscribed with Cavallino’s name. No works are documented and only five may be tentatively identified with pictures in mid-18th-century Neapolitan collections described by Bernardo de Dominici. A strict chronology cannot be established, yet his accepted works, the attribution of which depends on their distinctive visual qualities, may be grouped as early, mature and late pictures on the basis of style.
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