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| Daniele Crespi Baptism of Christ ca. 1629-30 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Daniele Crespi Road to Calvary ca. 1620-30 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Daniele Crespi St Charles Borromeo at Supper ca. 1628 oil on canvas Chiesa della Passione, Milan |
"To the names of these artist should be added that of the younger Daniele Crespi (ca. 1598-1630), a prodigious worker who derived mainly from Cerano [Giovanni Battista Crespi] and Giulio Cesare Procaccini, but whose first recorded work shows him assisting Guglielmo Caccia, called Il Moncalvo (ca. 1565-1625), in the frescoes of the dome of S. Vittore at Milan. In his best works Daniele combined severe realism and parsimonious handling of pictorial means with a sincerity of expression fully in sympathy with the religious climate at Milan. His famous St. Charles Borromeo at Supper [directly above] comes nearer to the spirit of the austere devotion of the saint than almost any other painting of the period and is, moreover, expressed without recourse to the customary religious and compositional props from which the three principal promoters of the early Milanese Seicento [Procaccini, Cerano, Morazzone] were never entirely able to detach themselves. The question has been raised if Daniele was indebted to Zurbarán's contemporary work. Whether or not the answer is in the affirmative, he certainly was impressed by Rubens and Van Dyck. . . . Daniele's career was prematurely interrupted by the plague of 1630. This event, immortalized by Alessandro Manzoni [in the novel I Promessi Sposi], spelled to all intents and purposes the end of the first and greatest phase of Milanese Seicento painting."
– Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, originally published in 1958, revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu and reissued by Yale University Press in 1999
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| Daniele Crespi Mocking of Christ ca. 1624-25 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Daniele Crespi Studies of Hands ca. 1628-30 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Daniele Crespi Cain slaying Abel before 1630 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Daniele Crespi The Flagellation ca. 1625 oil on panel Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Daniele Crespi St Bruno and Count Roger of Calabria before 1630 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Daniele Crespi Last Supper ca. 1629-30 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Daniele Crespi Marriage of the Virgin before 1630 drawing British Museum |
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| Daniele Crespi Adoration of the Magi before 1630 drawing National Gallery of Canada |
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| Daniele Crespi Pietà 1623-24 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Daniele Crespi Two Angels supporting an ornamental oval frame with God the Father above before 1630 drawing British Museum |
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| Daniele Crespi Portrait of a Sculptor ca. 1625 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |