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Lot description
GIACOMO CAVEDONI (Sassuolo, Modena, 1577-Bologna, 1660), attributed. "Angel and saint". Ink, pencil, brown wash and charcoal on octagonal paper. Size: 25 x 27 cm (drawing); 28.5 x 31 cm (paper); 51.5 x 54 cm (frame). Drawing attributed to Giacomo Cavedoni, an Italian painter of the Bolognese school, led by Annibale and Agostino Carracci. The anatomical robustness of the saint and the foreshortened angel show affinities with the classicist canons of this current of the Baroque period. A certain Michelangeloesque influence, although filtered through the Carracci models, is also evident in the sculptural value of the bodies. Giacomo Cavedoni was educated in Bologna in the workshop of Bartolomeo Passerotti and Bernardino Baldi and subsequently became a pupil of the Carracci at their Accademia degli ¬Incamminati. His work in Bologna did not prevent him from going to Venice, where he acquired a permanent imprint of the colourism developed in that city. In 1610 he travelled to Rome where he assisted Guido Reni on the frescoes in the Palazzo del Quirinale, assimilating this experience to the Neo-Venetianism which, together with the forms of Bolognese classicism, would be the most characteristic features of his painting. This is evident in his happiest works after his return to Bologna following his stay in Rome. Cavedone belonged to a fertile generation of Bolognese artists trained under the Carracci family: Mastelletta, Alessandro Tiarini, Lucio Massari, Leonello Spada and Lorenzo Garbieri were among the artists who brought the Bolognese School to splendour. Among his pupils were Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Giovanni Battista Cavagna (or Cavazza), Ottavio Corrado and Flaminio Torri.