Cesare Fracanzano
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| birth_date = 9 October 1609{{efn|Using date of baptism.}}
| birth_place = Bisceglie
| death_date = 1651{{efn|Using date of baptism.}}
| death_place = Barletta
| nationality = Italian
| spouse = Beatrice Covelli
| field = painting, fresco
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Cesare Fracanzano (c. 1609–1651), 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 grow up in the artistic city of Barletta, the same town of Giuseppe de Nittis.
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
File:Ignatius of Antiochie.jpg| Martyrdom of Ignatius of Antiochie, Galleria Borghese, Rome
File:Cesare fracanzano, s. g. battista, 1635-40, Q1775.JPG| St. John Baptist, National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples
File:Immacolata - San Ferdinando - Naples - Italy 2015.JPG| Immaculate, church of San Ferdinando, Naples
File:Napoli s Martino QDP Fracanzano s M Egiziaca 1050025.JPG| Egyptian Holy Mary, Certosa di San Martino, Naples
File:Cesare Fracanzano - Sterbende Mutter nach einem Bild des Aristides von Theben - GG 1685 - Kunsthistorisches Museum.jpg| Dying mother, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
File:Guarigione di un indemoniato - Cesare Fracanzano.png| Healing of a possessed man, signed, Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples
Notes
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References
- {{Bryan (3rd edition)|title=Fracanzano, Cesare |volume=1}}
External links
- {{commons category-inline|Cesare Fracanzano|Cesare Francazano}}
- [http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/81943 Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652], a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Cesare Fracanzano (see index)
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Category:Artists from the Kingdom of Naples
Category:17th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters
Category:People from the Province of Barletta-Andria-Trani
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