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
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
Giovanni Battista Crespi
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Giovanni Battista Crespi, called Il Cerano, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect. He is one of the most prominent of the Milanese artists of the early 17th century whose work represents a t
Francesco Cairo
…and is indebted to him in its colouring, based upon sharply lit oranges, browns and greens. The picture also shows the influence of the late work of Giovanni Battista Crespi. Cairo’s Death of the Blessed Andrea Avellino (c. 1630; Sant'Antonio Abate, Milan) is a more integrated composition, its sources less apparent. These…
Christ Appears to the Apostles Peter and Paul, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
St. Charles Borromeo, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Martyrdom of Saints Secunda and Rufina. Collaboration between Il Morazzone, Procaccini and Giovanni Battista Crespi
The Resurrection of Christ, Sant'Antonio Abate, Milan