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1601 Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy - 1663 Vienna, Austria. Known for: Eroticized religious and mythology painting, chiaroscuro.
CAGNACCI’S ‘REPENTANT MAGDALENE’. Through Jan. 22. Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan; 212-288-0700, . The 17th-century Italian painter Guido Cagnacci isn’t well known in this country,... Read full biography
CAGNACCI’S ‘REPENTANT MAGDALENE’. Through Jan. 22. Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan; 212-288-0700, . The 17th-century Italian painter Guido Cagnacci isn’t well known in this country, although he has become something of a cult figure to scholars of art made in his region, Romagna. In... Read full biography
CAGNACCI’S ‘REPENTANT MAGDALENE’. Through Jan. 22. Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan; 212-288-0700, . The 17th-century Italian painter Guido Cagnacci isn’t well known in this country, although he has become something of a cult figure to scholars of art made in his region, Romagna. In his time, he achieved modest fame for his skirting of marital laws (he tried to elope with a wealthy widow, and was said to be living in sin with young women who were disguised as male apprentices)... Read full biography
CAGNACCI’S ‘REPENTANT MAGDALENE’. Through Jan. 22. Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan; 212-288-0700, . The 17th-century Italian painter Guido Cagnacci isn’t well known in this country, although he has become something of a cult figure to scholars of art made in his region, Romagna. In his time, he achieved modest fame for his skirting of marital laws (he tried to elope with a wealthy widow, and was said to be living in sin with young women who were disguised as male apprentices) and for his eroticized religious and mythological scenes, in which the exposed female torso figured prominently. (This genre is typified by his variations on the theme of a dying Cleopatra, one of which is at the Italian Cultural Institute through Jan.... Read full biography
CAGNACCI’S ‘REPENTANT MAGDALENE’. Through Jan. 22. Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan; 212-288-0700, . The 17th-century Italian painter Guido Cagnacci isn’t well known in this country, although he has become something of a cult figure to scholars of art made in his region, Romagna. In his time, he achieved modest fame for his skirting of marital laws (he tried to elope with a wealthy widow, and was said to be living in sin with young women who were disguised as male apprentices) and for his eroticized religious and mythological scenes, in which the exposed female torso figured prominently. (This genre is typified by his variations on the theme of a dying Cleopatra, one of which is at the Italian Cultural Institute through Jan. 19, with another in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum and currently on view.). Late in his career, however, he stepped... Read full biography
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CAGNACCI’S ‘REPENTANT MAGDALENE’
Through Jan. 22. Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan; 212-288-0700,
The 17th-century Italian painter Guido Cagnacci isn’t well known in this country, although he has become something of a cult figure to scholars of art made in his region, Romagna. In his time, he achieved modest fame for his skirting of marital laws (he tried to elope with a wealthy widow, and was said to be living in sin with young women who were disguised as male apprentices) and for his eroticized religious and mythological scenes, in which the exposed female torso figured prominently. (This genre is typified by his variations on the theme of a dying Cleopatra, one of which is at the Italian Cultural Institute throu...But wait, there's more...
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