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Giovanni Battista Crespi (23 December 1573 – 23 October 1632), called Il Cerano, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect.

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Biography

He was born in Romagnano Sesia, the son of a painter, Raffaele Crespi, and moved to Cerano with his family some years later. In 1591 he is known to have been living in Milan.

True to the Counter-Reformation piety zealously expressed in Milanese art of his time, his paintings focus on mysteries and mystical episodes in saintly life. The crowded canvases and the angles recall Mannerism, but his paintings show an emotion that evokes common sentiments in Baroque art. Along with other artists, he completed a series of paintings (Quadroni of St. Charles) of the life of St. Charles Borromeo for the Duomo of Milan; an altarpiece with the Baptism of St. Augustine for San Marco, Milan; and a Mass of St. Gregory for the Basilica of San Vittore in Varese (1615–17). Also see the nightmarish, St. Gregory Delivers the Soul of a Monk (1617), also in San Vittore.

He was a scholar of considerable attainments and held a position of dignity in Cerano. In 1620 he was appointed the head of the Accademia Ambrosiana founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo. Among his pupils were Daniele Crespi, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, and Melchiorre Gherardini.

External links

• Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, an exhibition catalogue from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Crespi (see index)
• http://www.verbanensia.org/quadro_details.asp?quID=18755
• http://www.verbanensia.org/quadro_details.asp?quID=16003
• http://www.verbanensia.org/quadro_details.asp?quID=15651

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Crespi, Giovanni Battista". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 412.

На других языках

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[de] Giovanni Battista Crespi

Giovanni Battista Crespi, genannt Il Cerano (auch: Serrano oder Cerrano;[1] * 23. Dezember 1573 in Romagnano Sesia;[2] † 23. Oktober 1632 in Mailand), war ein italienischer Maler, Bildhauer und Architekt des Spätmanierismus und des Frühbarock, und ein führender Künstler seiner Zeit.

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- [en] Giovanni Battista Crespi

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[es] Giovanni Battista Crespi

Giovanni Battista Crespi, llamado el Cerano (Cerano, 23 de diciembre de 1573-Milán, 23 de octubre de 1632) fue un pintor, arquitecto y escultor italiano, activo durante el manierismo tardío y el primer barroco.

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[fr] Giovanni Battista Crespi

Giovanni Battista Crespi, dit Il Cerano, (né le 23 décembre 1573 à Romagnano Sesia, dans la province de Novare dans le Piémont - mort le 23 octobre 1632 à Milan) est un peintre, sculpteur et architecte italien de la Renaissance appartenant à l'école lombarde.

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[it] Il Cerano

Giovan Battista Crespi detto il Cerano (Romagnano Sesia, 23 dicembre 1573 – Milano, 23 ottobre 1632) è stato un pittore, scultore e architetto italiano, attivo nell'età della Controriforma.

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[ru] Креспи, Джованни Баттиста

Джованни Баттиста Креспи Иль Черано (итал. Giovanni Battista Crespi; 23 декабря, 1573, Черано — 23 октября, 1632, Милан) — итальянский художник эпохи раннего барокко, живописец, скульптор и архитектор, работал в Милане.

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