Cesare Fracanzano
Cesare Fracanzano (1605-1651), a Neapolitan painter who flourished in the 17th century, was a pupil of Spagnoletto. Born in Bisceglie, in Apulia by Alessandro, a nobleman originally from Verona and a mannerist painter. His pictorial style was based on Ribera, but also on Tintoretto, the Carracci brothers and Guido Reni. After long years of artistic preparation and work in Naples, in 1626 he returned to Apulia, to Barletta where he married Beatrice Covelli. He worked a lot in the Apulian town in churches and noble palaces. He moved from his hometown only to carry out work commitments in Naples, Rome and other places in Apulia. There is in the Museo del Prado (Madrid) a picture by him, representing Two Wrestlers. His son, Michelangelo Fracanzano, who was also a painter, died in France about 1685. His brother Francesco was also a painter.
Gallery
Martyrdom of Ignatius of Antiochie, Galleria Borghese, Rome
St. John Baptist, National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples
Immaculate, church of San Ferdinando, Naples
Egyptian Holy Mary, Certosa di San Martino, Naples
Dying mother, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Healing of a possessed man, signed, Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Fracanzano, Cesare". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
External links
Media related to Cesare Francazano at Wikimedia Commons- Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Cesare Fracanzano (see index)