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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Female Figure before 1625 drawing British Museum |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Penitent Magdalen before 1625 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Study for Penitent Magdalen ca 1620 oil on paper, mounted on canvas private collection |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Penitent Magdalen with an Angel 1620 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini and Jan Brueghel the Elder Virgin and Child with Angels (Procaccini) surrounded by Garland (Brueghel) ca. 1619 oil on copper Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Susanna and the Elders before 1625 oil on canvas Christ Church, University of Oxford |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Samson and the Philistines ca. 1625 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
"It was around 1600 that Procaccini took up painting, and some of his earliest work in this medium, between 1602 and 1607, was in the same church of Santa Maria presso San Celso in Milan where he had earlier worked as a sculptor. . . . The interest in scenes of violence that characterizes his paintings for Santa Maria presso San Celso remained a constant feature of his work. Procaccini's eclectic style as a painter, however, has meant that the dating of his paintings remains problematic. In 1610 he painted six large scenes from the life of Saint Carlo Borromeo for the Duomo in Milan, working alongside his Mannerist counterpart Giovanni Battista Crespi, known as Il Cerano. A visit to Genoa in 1618 had a profound effect on his style as a painter, largely as the result of his exposure to the paintings of Rubens that he saw there. Several pictures by Procaccini remain in churches in Genoa. Together with Cerano and Pier Francesco Mazzuchelli, known as Il Morazzone, Procaccini was established as one of the leading Mannerist artists working in Lombardy in the first quarter of the 17th century. Indeed, in one instance the three painters collaborated on a single picture [directly below], The Martyrdom of Saints Rufina and Secunda (known as the 'Tre Mani'), painted in the early 1620s and now in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan. As Ann Sutherland Harris has aptly noted of Procaccini, 'He forged a style as a painter that combines brilliant, rhythmic, impasted brushwork and dense, energetic compositions that exploit both maniera spatial compression and baroque energy.'"
– biographical notes from Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, London
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini with Giovanni Battista Crespi and Pier Francesco Mazzuchelli The Martyrdom of Saints Rufina and Secunda ca. 1620-25 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Madonna and Child with St Francis, St Dominic and Angels before 1625 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Holy Family with St John the Baptist and Angel ca. 1620-25 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Annunciation ca. 1620-25 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini Personification of Peace defeating War ca. 1620-25 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini St Cecilia with two Angels ca. 1620-25 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Giulio Cesare Procaccini St Jerome with an Angel ca. 1620-25 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |