Giacomo Cavedone, Susanna and the Elders, Oil on Canvas, 16th-17th Century, Framed

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Giacomo Cavedone (Sassuolo, Italy, 1577 - Bologna, Italy, 1660)
Title: Susanna and the Elders
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without … Read more Giacomo Cavedone (Sassuolo, Italy, 1577 - Bologna, Italy, 1660)
Title: Susanna and the Elders
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: without frame 97 × 75 cm - with frame 123.5 x 100 cm
Golden frame
Not signed

Publications: E. Negro, N. Roio, Giacomo Cavedone 1577-1660, Modena 1996, pp. 164, 165.

Giacomo Cavedone (also called Giacomo Cavedoni; 1577–1660) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. He belonged to the generation of Carracci-inspired or trained painters. He was born in Sassuolo, near Modena, and was able to obtain a three-year stipend to apprentice with Bernardino Baldi (1553-1617) and Annibale Carracci (1560-1609). In the autumn of 1609, he sojourned in Rome for a year to work under Guido Reni, and is known to have worked in Venice from 1612 to 1613. He became one of Ludovico Carracci's primary assistants, and upon Ludovico's death in 1619 became Caposindaco of the Accademia degli Incamminati. His principal works are the Adoration of the Magi,[2] the Four Doctors, Last Supper; and his masterpiece, the large altar painting in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints Petronio and Alo (1614). The painting depicts an iconographic subject that Cavedone had treated on other occasions. Stylistic comparisons with the artist's later works allow us to establish a possible chronological placement close to Bondanello's altarpiece of 1657, with which this painting shares the geometric treatment of the drapery, the simplification of forms, and the impasto and sfumato painting techniques. See less