Cesare Fracanzano

Drunken Silenus, Museo del Prado, c. 1630–1635.

Two wrestlers, now in the Prado in Madrid

Cesare Fracanzano (1605-1651), 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 a mannerist painter. 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

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  Martyrdom of Ignatius of Antiochie, Galleria Borghese, Rome
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  St. John Baptist, National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples
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  Immaculate, church of San Ferdinando, Naples
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  Egyptian Holy Mary, Certosa di San Martino, Naples
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  Dying mother, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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  Healing of a possessed man, signed, Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Fracanzano, Cesare". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

• Media related to Cesare Francazano at Wikimedia Commons
• Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Cesare Fracanzano (see index)