Lionello Spada
(1576 - May 17, 1622) |
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Secular Narratives Art Work
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Lionello Spada |
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Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Bologna |
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Italian |
| Birth: |
1576 |
| Death: |
May 17, 1622 |
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Quick Facts
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Secular Narratives |
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Baroque |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painting
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Biography
| One of the brighter stars active in Parma during the first decades of the seventeenth century, Spada trained in the Carracci academy. His earliest activities place him in Emilia between 1603 to 1607, where his best-known painting, The Virgin and Child with Sts. Francis and Dominic (ca. 1603, Bologna, S. Maria dei Poveri), shows his Carraccesque orientation. Spada may have been in Rome before 1607 but certrainly traveled to Rome and Malta between 1608 and 1614, where the work of Caravaggio and Baglione made a very strong impression on him. Successfully adapting style to suit function and location, Spada generally retained a Carraccesque manner for his many fresco cycles and utilized Caravaggio's idiom for his easel pictures, while retaining a structure and monumentality that harks back to his early training. Spada was in Malta around 1610, executing frescoes in the Palace of the Grand Masters. Between 1614 and 1616 he was in Reggio, painting frescoes for the Madonna della Ghiara. The years 1617 until his death in 1622 were spent in Parma under the patronage of Ranuccio Faraese. His easel pictures such as Cain and Abel (Naples, Pinacoteca Nazionale) adopt figure types close to those of Baglione. Their generalized treatment, monumental size, and the emphatic rhythms and patterns created by their forms indicate Spada's brilliant fusion of his Bolognese heritage with his interest in Caravaggism. His Concert (Rome, Galleria Borghese) indicates his response to Venetian painting, and his Christ on the Way to Calvary (Parma, Galleria Nazionale) reveals his specific appreciation for painters such as Fetti. His work may have had an impact on Luca Ferrari. |
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