Bernardo Cavallino
Expressive Neapolitan Baroque painter
Bernardo Cavallino was an Italian painter and draughtsman. He is regarded as one of the most original painters active in Naples during the first half of the 17th century. Born in Naples, he is thought to have died during the plague epidemic in 1656. While his paintings are some of the more stunningly expressive works emerging from the Neapolitan artists of his day, little is known about the painter's background or training. Of eighty attributed paintings, less than ten are signed. One of his masterpieces is the billowing proletarian Blessed Virgin at the Brera Gallery in Milan. Passive amid the swirling, muscular putti, this Neapolitan signorina delicately rises from the fog, the updated Catholic baroque equivalent of a Botticelli's Venus.
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Artworks by this artist
- Saint Catherine of Alexandria
- The Flagellation of Christ 17th century
- Adoration Of The Magi
- The Shade of Samuel Invoked by Saul 1650-1656
- The Virgin and Child
- The Triumph of Galatea C. 1650
- Saint Lawrence between 1640 and 1645
- Dream of St. Joseph c. 1645
- Saint Agatha 1640s
- Mucius Scaevola Confronting King Porsenna circa 1650
- Saint John the Evangelist from 1635 until 1640
- Adoration of the Shepherds c. 1650
- Judith with the Head of Holofernes 1650s
- Saint Ursula ca. 1650