Giuseppe Maria Crespi

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Self-portrait (between 1725 and 1730)
Confirmation (around 1712)

Giuseppe Maria Crespi (born March 16, 1665 in Bologna ; † July 16, 1747 there ) was an Italian painter and etcher .

Crespi was called lo Spagnolo (English: the Spaniard) by his classmates because of his elegant appearance , was a student of Domenico Maria Canuti and Carlo Cignani , and then educated himself by studying Lodovico Carracci , the most famous Venetians, Antonio da Correggio , Federico Barocci and of nature by not only observing the people on the street with a camera obscura , but also trying to grasp the various games and reflections of light.

His pictures are full of these and other oddities. In heroic and sacred images he often gave a place to caricature images, and in shadows and drapery he often fell into the mannered.

His paintings are characterized by lightness of composition, power of expression and liveliness of movement. His seven sacraments can be seen in the Dresden gallery , a mourning nun in the Munich Pinakothek and the centaur Chiron in the Vienna Belvedere . Crespi died in his native Bologna in 1747.

painting

  • bookshelves
  • Dice player
  • Fair
  • Hecuba blinds Polymnestor
  • Cardinal Prospero Lambertini
  • Lute player
  • Flea seekers
  • Self portrait

Other works

  • Achilles and the Centaur Chiron, around 1700–05, canvas, 125 × 123 cm. Vienna, Art History Museum .
  • Amor and Psyche, around 1707-09, canvas, 214 × 133 cm. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi .
  • Aeneas, the Sibylle and Charon, around 1700–05, canvas, 129 × 127 cm. Vienna, Art History Museum.
  • Peasant family, around 1710, canvas, 57 × 57 cm. Budapest, Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum .
  • Bethlehemite Child Murder, 1706, canvas, 133 × 189 cm. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi.
  • Blinding Polymnestor by the Trojans, around 1700–05, canvas, 173 × 184 cm. Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts .
  • Young man with a lute, around 1700, Nizhny Novgorod , State Art Museum
  • The Banquet in the Pharisee's House, 1685–90, canvas, 188 × 248 cm, Art Institute of Chicago .

Exhibitions

literature

Web links

Commons : Giuseppe Maria Crespi  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Giuseppe Maria Crespi in the catalog of the Königliche Gemäldegalerie zu Dresden (1887)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Crespi, Giuseppe Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spagnuolo, lo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter and etcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1665
PLACE OF BIRTH Bologna
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1747
Place of death Bologna