Francesco Cairo (1607 - 1665) was an Italian painter active in Baroque Lombardy and Piedmont. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc
He was born and died in Milan. Milan (Milano Milan (listen) is one of the largest cities in Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is not known where he obtained his early training though he is strongly influenced by the circle of il Morazzone, in works such as the Saint Teresa altarpiece in the Certosa di Pavia. Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (commonly known as il Morazzone; 1573-1626 was an Italian painter of the early Baroque era in Milan. The Certosa di Pavia or Charterhouse of Pavia (built c 1396 - 1465) is a famous Monastery complex in Lombardy, Italy
In 1633, Cairo moved to Turin to work as a court painter, including portraits, to Vittorio Amedeo I of the House of Savoy. Victor Amadeus I ( Italian: Vittorio Amedeo I di Savoia, 8 May 1587 &ndash 7 October 1637) was the Duke of Savoy from 1630 The House of Savoy (Casa Savoia was formed in the early eleventh century in the historical Savoy region Between 1637-1638, Cairo travelled to Rome, where he encounters the works of Pietro da Cortona, Guido Reni and of the Caravaggisti. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berrettini ( November 1 1596 - May 16, 1669) was an Italian artist and architect of High Baroque Guido Reni ( 4 November 1575 &ndash 18 August 1642) was a prominent Italian painter of high- Baroque style Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, usually just known as Caravaggio, (28 September 1571 – 18 July 1610 was an Italian Artist active in Rome He returns to Lombardy to complete altarpieces for the Certosa of Pavia and a church at Casalpusterlengo. Casalpusterlengo is a Comune (municipality in the Province of Lodi in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 50 km southeast He painted a St. Theresa for San Carlo in Venice. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Between 1646-1649, he returns to Turin, and paints an altarpiece for Savigliano and the church of San Salvario. Savigliano is a commune of Piedmont, Italy, in the Province of Cuneo, 32 miles south of Turin by rail 1053 feet above sea-level He is also known as Il Cavalière del Cairo, because in Turin, he received the order of SS. Lazarus and Maurice in recognition of his merit.
Many of his works are eccentric depictions of religious ecstasies; the saints appear liquefied and contorted by piety. He often caps them with exuberant, oriental turbans. He is sometimes compared with his Milanese contemporary, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, also called il Panfilo. Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (1609-1702 was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active mainly in Lombardy. Ludovico Antonio David and Pietro Scalvini were among his pupils. Pietro Scalvini (1718-1792 was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque and Neoclassic period active in Brescia.
References
- Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). Pelican History of Art: Art and Architecture Italy, 1600-1750, 1980, Penguin Books Ltd, 339.
- Bryan, Michael (1886). in Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 208.
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