Cesare Fracanzano

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| birth_date = 9 October 1609{{efn|Using date of baptism.}}

| birth_place = Bisceglie

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| death_place = Barletta

| nationality = Italian

| spouse = Beatrice Covelli

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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

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References

  • {{Bryan (3rd edition)|title=Fracanzano, Cesare |volume=1}}