Carlo Francesco Nuvolone
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Carlo Francesco Nuvolone was an Italian painter of religious subjects and portraits who was active mainly in Lombardy. He became the leading painter in Lombardy in the mid-17th century, producing work
Madonna and Child, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Portrait of a Gentleman in Armour, priv. col.
Portrait of the Nuvolone family, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
The purification of the Virgin, Piacenza Civic Museum
Francesco Cairo
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Francesco Cairo, also known as Francesco del Cairo, was an Italian Baroque painter active in Lombardy and Piedmont. He is also known as Il Cavalière del Cairo, because in Turin, he received the Order
Carlo Francesco Nuvolone
…where he frescoed Chapel III with the Nativity and Chapel V with Christ among the Doctors (both 1650). His interest in the dark and passionate art of Francesco Cairo is evident in his St. Peter and St. Clare (1651–52; Milan, Basilica of San Simpliciano) and St. Peter Healing the Lame Man (Milan, San Vittorio), which…
Self-portrait
Herodias with the Head of St John the Baptist, oil on canvas (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts)
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, oil on canvas (Toulouse, Musée des Augustins)
Girl with a Large Turban, Melford Hall, Long Melford