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| Antonio Cavallucci Head of an Angel before 1795 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Antonio Cavallucci Studies of Two Male Heads before 1795 drawing National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Antonio Cavallucci St Benedict Joseph Labre before 1795 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| Antonio Cavallucci Socrates takes leave of his Followers before 1795 oil on canvas private collection |
"Antonio Cavallucci was born in 1752 in Sermoneta near Rome and was a pupil of Stefano Pozzi and Gaetano Lapis, but was decisively influenced by Anton Raphael Mengs and Pompeo Batoni, with whom he was placed on an equal level by many of his contemporaries. Cavallucci's art is interesting as a symptom of the penetration of northern "sensitivity" and emotionalism into Roman painting of the 18th century. His strongly idealized and sentimental depictions of expressive faces struck his contemporaries as a revelation, as did the fluid, gently dispersed manner of his modeling and the soft, rather sweet contrasts of light and dark; these are qualities in which certain tendencies already present in the art of Batoni seem to have been carried even further. After 1790 Cavallucci, who was on the verge of attaining great renown through his portraits, altar paintings and small devotional pictures, taught at the Portuguese Academy in Rome, but died soon thereafter in 1795."
– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)
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| Antonio Cavallucci Elijah and the Angel before 1795 oil on canvas Chiesa dei Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti, Rome |
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| attributed to Antonio Cavallucci Dead Christ supported by Angels and Putti before 1795 drawing British Museum |
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| Antonio Cavallucci Apotheosis of Four Martyred Saints before 1795 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Antonio Cavallucci Presentation of the Virgin ca. 1790-95 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Antonio Cavallucci Virgin and Christ enthroned with Saints before 1795 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Antonio Cavallucci St Peter converting his Jailers ca. 1787 drawing Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Antonio Cavallucci Study for St Barnabas ca. 1780 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Antonio Cavallucci Personification of Charity ca. 1790 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| attributed to Antonio Cavallucci Virgin and Child before 1795 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antonio Cavallucci after Correggio Mystic Marriage of St Catherine before 1795 oil on canvas National Trust, Stourhead, Wiltshire |