Cesare Gennari

Cesare Gennari
Birth name	Cesare Gennari
Born	December 12, 1637(1637-12-12) Cento, Italy
Died	February 11, 1688(1688-02-11) (aged 50) Bologna, Itlay
Nationality	Italian
Field	Painting
Movement	Baroque

Cesare Gennari, Orpheus, private collection

Cesare Gennari (12 December 1637 – 11 February 1688^[1]) was an Italian painter of Baroque period. Son of Ercole Gennari and born at Cento, he trained in the studio of his maternal uncle, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri called "Guercino",^[2] in Bologna. Cesare's uncle, Benedetto Gennari, and his brother, Benedetto II Gennari ((1633—1715), were also painters in the circle of Guercino. Cesare and the younger Benedetto were heirs of Guercino's studio, papers and effects, preserved for some time at Casa Gennari, Bologna.^[3] In his later work Cesare "shed all traces of Guercinesque idiom, adopting instead the courtly accents of St James's and Saint-Germain".^[4]

His Saint Mary Magdalene is in the Pinacoteca Civica di Cento. His Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Nicholas of Bari is at the Pinacoteca di Bologna.^[5]

He married Francesca Ripa, and had two sons, Gianfranceasco and Filippo.^[6]

References

1. ^ Dates in A. Rusconi, La municipale Pinacoteca di Cento 1861:12 : "VIII Gennari Cesare Centese"
2. ^ Guercino's sister, Lucia Barbieri, married Ercole Gennari in 1628.
3. ^ E. Negro, M. Pirondini and N. Roio, La scuola del Guercino, 2004.
4. ^ C.T. van Serooskerken, reviewing the Guercino exhibition "Guercino. Bologna, Cento and Frankfurt",The Burlington Magazine, 1991:865.
5. ^ Brevi indicazioni della Galleria de' quadri..., 1867: no. 287.
6. ^ Rusconi 1861.

• Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. T&W Boone, 29 Bond Street; Digitized by Googlebooks. pp. page 110. http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:picture+intitle:collector's. 

• "Gennari, Cesare (Italian painter, 1637-1688)". Union List of Artist Names. 500002017. http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&page=1&subjectid=500002017. Retrieved 2011-09-04. 

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Name	Gennari, Cesare
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Date of birth	12 December 1637
Place of birth	Cento, Italy
Date of death	11 February 1688
Place of death	Bologna, Itlay