Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi: Saint Jerome in his study (under the angels), Italy 1617

Supper at Emmaus

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi: The Holy Family with Saint Catalina, Spain, around 1618, Museo del Prado

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (* 1590 in Viterbo ; † September 21, 1625 in Rome ) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period .

Life

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi was a student of the architect and painter Giovanni Battista Crescenzi in Rome, and when he went to Spain in 1617, Cavarozzi followed him and worked in Madrid for a year, but then returned to Italy.

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi painted in his early creative period in the style of Cristofano Roncalli , who had also been Crescenzi's teacher. From 1610, however, he followed Caravaggio's style of painting , whose novel and realistic image design he took over. Because of this lasting influence he is counted among the so-called Caravaggists .

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi used his relationships with Cavarozzi, who came from a Roman patrician family, and was thus able to meet the demands of an increasingly liberalizing image market without having to forego the traditional patronage relationship. Selected works by Cavarozzi show that by consulting with Crescenzi he was able to adapt to the client's individual artistic requirements. This close relationship is said to have earned him the nickname "Bartolomeo del Crescenzi".

It can be assumed that Cavarozzi is the painter who created the figures in the paintings of the master of the Acquavella still life . If the thesis was accepted that this painter, who was not known by name, was Giovanni Battista Crescenzi, both would have even created pictures together.

Works (selection)

• The St. Ursula and her companions , 1608, Church of San Marco , Rome
• The St. Jerome in his study (with angels), in 1617, Palatine Gallery ( Palazzo Pitti ), Florence
• Holy Family , Accademia Albertina, Turin
• Madonna and Child , Museo del Colle del Duomo, Viterbo
• The Holy Family with Saint Catherine , around 1618, Museo del Prado , Madrid
• Madonna and Child , around 1618, Colegio de Doncellas, Toledo
• Sleeping Jesus boy , Museo del Prado, Madrid,
• Violin player , Louvre , París
• Violin player , Parelari Collection, Bergamo
• Annunciation , 1622, Palazzo Comunale, Viterbo

literature

• Marieke von Bernstorff: Agent and painter as actors in the art business of the early 17th century. Giovan Battista Crescenzi and Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (Roman Studies in the Bibliotheca Hertziana; vol. 28). Hirmer, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7774-2641-9 (also dissertation, TU Dresden 2009).
• Roberto Longhi : Ultimi studii sul Caravaggio e la sua cerchia . In: Proporzioni. Annali della Fondazione Roberto Longhi , vol. 1 (1943).
• Gianni Papi: The primo "Lamento di Aminta" e altri approfondimenti su Bartolomeo Cavarozzi . In: Paragone , Vol. 59 (2008), pp. 39-51, ISSN  1120-4737
• Daniele Sanguineti (Ed.): Bartolomeo Cavarozzi. "Sacre famiglie" a confronto . Skira, Milan 2005, ISBN 88-7624-578-2 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin, October 6, 2005 to February 26, 2006).
• William Stirling-Maxwell : Annals of the Artists of Spain . Volume 2. Nimmo Books, London 1891.