Cesare Gennari

Cesare Gennari
Cesare Gennari, Madonna and Child, Hermitage Museum
Born
Cesare Gennari

(1637-12-12)12 December 1637
Cento, Italy
Died11 February 1688(1688-02-11) (aged 50)
Bologna, Italy
NationalityItalian
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque

Cesare Gennari (12 December 1637 – 11 February 1688[1]) was an Italian painter of the Baroque 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.[2]

In his later work Cesare "shed all traces of Guercinesque idiom, adopting instead the courtly accents of St James's and Saint-Germain".[3]

  1. ^ Dates in A. Rusconi, La municipale Pinacoteca di Cento 1861:12 : "VIII Gennari Cesare Centese"
  2. ^ Brevi indicazioni della Galleria de' quadri..., 1867: no. 287.
  3. ^ C.T. van Serooskerken, reviewing the Guercino exhibition "Guercino. Bologna, Cento and Frankfurt",The Burlington Magazine, 1991:865.