Carlo Bononi

Carlo Bononi (1569- c.1632) was an Italian painter. Born and active mainly in Emilia and Ferrara, and considered to be mainly a painter of the School of Ferrara. He studied painting under Giuseppe Mazzuoli, known as il Bastarolo. Knew Guercino, and rose to prominence when the painter Scarsellino died, and the former called to Rome.

Partial anthology of works

• Annunciation , (San Bartolomeo, Modena)
• Martyrdom of Saint Paul, (Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden)
• Madonna with Saints Maurelius and George, (Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna)
• Painting (San Paterniano, Fano)
• Miracle of San Gualberto, (San Orsola, Mantua)
• Ascension of Christ, (1617, San Salvatore, Bologna)
• Exaltationa of the Name of God Fresco decoration, (1617-21, Santa Maria in Vado, Ferrara)[1]
• Second of four chapels, (Madonna della Ghiara, Bologna)
• Saint Louis of Toulouse Praying for the end of the Plague (Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna)
• The Madonna of Loreto appearing to Saints John the Evangelist, Bartholemew, and James the Great,
• The Guardian Angel(late 1620s, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara)
• Saint Barbara

References

• http://www.fondazionemanodori.it/collez_bononi.htm
• Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief (1986). National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (ed.). The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries. pp. 379–85. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)