- Girolamo Curti
Girolamo Curti (1576 - 1632) was an Italian painter of the early-
Baroque , specializing inquadratura .He was also called "il Dentone".He was born to a poor family at
Bologna , and worked for cloth spinner till age 25. His first formal training was with the Cremonese painterCesare Baglioni (no evident relation toGiovanni Baglione ). He apparently quickly worked independently then rejoined his friend and fellow Bolognese and Baglione pupil,Lionello Spada . Together during the early 1600s, they began to collaborate in quadratura, with Curti painting the structures, while Spada painted the figures. They soon parted, with Spada becoming a canvas painter, and Curti was to travel to paint inModena ,Parma (1618 and 1630), Rome (1623) andGenoa . He returned from Rome to Bologna, and there was assisted byMichelangelo Colonna ,Agostino Mitelli , andAndrea Seghizzi , and painted architectural backgrounds forGuercino frescoes. Much of his work has been lost over the centuries.The main source of his biography is
Cesare Malvasia , whose father's villa atTrebbio was frescoed by Curti and assistants.References
*cite book | first= Maria|last= Farquhar| year=1855| title= Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters| editor = Ralph Nicholson Wornum | pages= page 54| publisher= Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006| id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:Wornum+intitle:principal+intitle:painters | authorlink=
*"Contributions to Girolamo Curti", by Ebria Feinblatt. The Burlington Magazine (1975),117(86): pages 342+344-353.
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