Carlo Bononi
(1569 - 1632) |
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Altarpieces, Secular Narratives Art Work
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Carlo Bononi |
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Ferrara |
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1569 |
| Death: |
1632 |
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Altarpieces, Secular Narratives |
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Painting
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Biography
| After Scarsellino's death in 1620, Bononi became the leading artist of Ferrara and has been called that city's last great painter. To some scholars Bononi's career parallels that of Lanfranco in Rome in the early seventeenth century. Still too little appreciated, Bononi clearly deserves further study. Bononi's life is not well documented. A pupil of Giuseppe Mazzuoli (11 Bastarolo, d. 1589), Bononi was, according to some sources, in Rome between 1605 and 1610. Few documents illuminate his activity before 1611, the year of his Annunciation painted for San Bartolomeo in Modena (and probably the picture now in Gualtieri). His three paintings for S. Paterniano in Fano are dated roughly 1610-12. These display certain affinities with Ludovico Carracci, Schedoni, and Badalocchio. Bononi may have traveled to Parma and Venice. In 1613 Bononi produced an altarpiece for a church in Cento while Guercino* was still in the city. The following year (1614), Bononi produced The Miracle of San Gualberto for S. Orsola in Mantua and in 1616 and 1618 he painted two altarpieces for Reggio Emilia. Between 1615 and 1617 he must have divided his time between Ferrara and Bologna; his altarpiece, Ascension of Christ (Bologna, San Salvatore), is considered his most important work for that city. Bononi's decorations for the Ferrarese church of Santa Maria in Vado is probably his most ambitious undertaking. The ceilings and apse vault were painted between 1617 and 1620-21. The apse fresco has been called the most advanced painting of its type until Lanfranco's dome fresco, painted for S. Andrea della Valle in Rome in 1625 to 1627. While Bononi was at work on this project, Guercino arrived in Ferrara under the patronage of the Papal Legate of Ferrara, Cardinal Serra. The artists' mutual influence on each other has long been recognized by scholars. In 1622 Bononi was called in to replace Guercino as the artist to paint the second of four chapels in the church of the Madonna della Ghiara, and between 1622 and 1629 he painted several other altarpieces in Reggio, Carpi, and Modena. Bononi's last work is the unfinished 5/. Louis of Toulouse Praying for the End of the Plague (dated 1632, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum). |
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