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| Cecco del Caravaggio Resurrection ca. 1619-20 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Resurrection (detail) ca. 1619-20 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Resurrection (detail) ca. 1619-20 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
"To this day Cecco del Caravaggio remains an enigmatic figure, despite Gianni Papi's recent research on the artist. He was identified as Francesco Buoneri through documents related to the decoration of the Guicciardini chapel in the church of Santa Felicita in Florence. In fact, the ambassador of Grand Duke Cosimo in Rome, Piero Guicciardini, commissioned from 'Francesco Buonero pittore' a painting of The Resurrection. He received payments totaling 200 scudi between September 1619 and June 1620. . . . Cecco's painting was rejected by the patron and sold in Rome for 160 scudi. The canvas was likely purchased by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, as evidenced by its presence in the seventeenth-century inventories."
– from the exhibition catalogue, Caravaggio & His Followers in Rome, curated by David Franklin and Sebastian Schütze (Yale University Press, 2011)
"The Resurrection exaggerates the bold contrast of light and dark and the realistic treatment of sacred figures that Caravaggio had introduced into Roman painting. Buoneri was apparently one of Caravaggio's closest followers. He may have been the 'boy Francesco' who assisted the painter during his last years in Rome, a personal connection suggested by his contemporary nickname Cecco (for Francesco) del Caravaggio."
– curator's notes from the Art Institute of Chicago
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Christ expelling the Money-changers from the Temple ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Road to Calvary ca. 1610 oil on canvas Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Martyrdom of St Sebastian ca. 1611-13 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Penitent Magdalen before 1620 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Penitent Magdalen before 1620 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Guardian Angel with St Ursula and St Thomas ca. 1615 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Woman with a Dove ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Musician ca. 1610 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Flute-player ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio St Lawrence ca. 1615 oil on canvas Chiesa Nuova, Rome |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Eritrean Sibyl ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio Salome with the Head of John the Baptist ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas Collezione Koelliker, Milan |