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Cavallino, Bernardo Neapolitan painter.
He was the most individual and sensitive Neapolitan painter of his time, but his
career is somewhat obscure. About eighty paintings by him are extant, but only
one is dated, St Cecilia in Ecstasy (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, 1645; a modello
is in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples). Most of his pictures are small-scale
religious works, peopled by exquisitely elegant and refined figures who evoke a
feeling of tender melancholy. Their fragile sensitivity is in complete contrast
to the earthy vigour of much of Neapolitan painting of his period. Cavallino
trained with Massimo Stanzione, but his style has more in common with that of
Van Dyck, whose work was fairly well known in Naples. He is presumed to have
died in the plague that devastated Naples in 1656...Kfki
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Museum, Texas: Mucius Scaevola Confronting King Porsenna,
C.1650
Mucius Scaevola Confronting King Porsenna
BERNARDO CAVALLINO (Italian, 1616-1656), c. 1650
Oil on copper; 24-1/8 x 35-1/8 in Mucius Scaevola Confronting King Porsenna is a
mature work by Bernardo Cavallino, a Neapolitan painter who tempered the
dramatic realism of Caravaggio through the classicizing influence of Domenichino
and Guido Reni. This painting displays subtle coloristic effects
and the carefully controlled modulation of light for which the artist became
famous, in Spain as well as in Italy. His figures are elegant, graceful, and
delicate and create a sense of drama in calm, measured tones. The subject is taken from
Livy's account of the
Etruscan siege of Rome. Gaius Mucius, a Roman youth, vowed to assassinate the
Etruscan King Porsenna but mistakenly killed the king's treasurer, who was
distributing wages to the soldiers. Brought before Porsenna, Gaius announced
that he was but one of many youths sworn to slay him. To prove the Romans' resolve to resist the
invading Porsenna, he held his hand in the fire without flinching until it
burned away. Amazed by this demonstration, Porsenna set him free and concluded
peace with Rome. Thereafter, Gaius Mucius, known as Mucius Scaevola (the
left-handed), became a symbol of Roman virtue. The noble counselor at the
left,
who turns toward the viewer, has been identified as a self-portrait of
Cavallino.
Artonline:
nasce a Napoli nel 1616. Allievo di Massimo Stanzione, nelle opere eseguite tra il 1635 e il 1640 - come il Martirio di san
Bartolomeo di Capodimonte, a Napoli, o l'lncontro tra sant'Anna e san Gioacchino
del museo di Budapest - si mostra sensibile ai modi del Maestro dell'Annuncio ai
Pastori. Sul finire degli anni Trenta si accosta al caravaggismo più sfumato di
pittori nordici come Michiel Sweerts che sono a Napoli alla bottega di Aniello
Falcone. In seguito la sua pittura tende a un crescente preziosismo ed eleganza,
tipici di opere come la Santa Cecilia di Firenze o l'Erminia tra i pastori di
Capodimonte. Muore a Napoli nel 1656 circa http://www.a.it/edicola/artdos/109/i05m-109.html
Books:
Bernardo
Cavallino of Naples, 1616-1656
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