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| Giacinto Calandrucci Transfiguration before 1707 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Study for Figure of Aurora ca. 1680-90 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Study for Ceiling Decoration 1680 drawing, with watercolor Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
"Born in Palermo in 1646, Giacinto Calandrucci received his earliest instruction under Pietro del Po before becoming a pupil of Carlo Maratti, who trained him, along with Giovanni Battista Passeri, with particular partiality. The works produced by Calandrucci for churches and palaces in Rome were considerable in number, but of very uneven quality. Despite his student-master relationship with Maratti, Calandrucci's art, with its lively energy, reminds one more of the followers of Giovanni Battista Gaulli and Pietro da Cortona, especially in the frescoes. A banal and vacuous grace often predominates in his oil paintings; characteristic of these are the cavorting and undulating contour lines and the bright, sweet colors. The total impression of his compositions is thoroughly agreeable, though the execution is lacking in any degree of serious application. A few years after 1700 he returned to Palermo in order to undertake a major commission for fresco painting which he never completed due to sudden illness. He died in Palermo in 1707."
– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Angel (half-length ca. 1665-1700 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Angel with St Francis of Assisi ca. 1665-1700 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Assumption of the Virgin before 1707 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| attributed to Giacinto Calandrucci Entombment (Pietà) before 1707 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Martyrdom of St Lawrence before 1707 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Madonna and Child in Glory, flanked by St Peter and St Paul before 1707 drawing private collection |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Angel appearing to St Dominic before 1707 drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Vision of St John of Matha before 1707 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Mass of St Gregory before 1707 drawing Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci The Spies returning from Canaan ca. 1690-1700 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Giacinto Calandrucci Allegory of Night ca. 1680-90 drawing British Museum |