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| Giovanni Battista Crespi Madonna of the Rosary ca. 1618-25 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi Adoration of the Shepherds before 1632 oil on canvas Duomo di San Giovanni Battista, Turin |
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1595 oil on copper Museo del Prado, Madrid |
"The son of a minor Milanese fresco painter, Cerano became one of Milan's leading painters and designers of church facades, sculpture, and engravings. In the mid-1590s he went to Rome, where he adopted certain pink and yellow tones, most likely after having seen Federico Barocci's paintings. He established himself in Milan by the late 1590s, where his many patrons included the Borromeo family. Cerano's paintings representing Charles Borromeo's life, completed in 1604, are still displayed in Milan Cathedral on the saint's feast day. Considered among his greatest achievements, these sumptuously colored and sensitively patterned scenes display a highly emotion, somewhat mystical tone. Influenced by a local tradition of religious intensity and popular devotion, Cerano humanized religious experience in his art. For St. Charles Borromeo's canonization ceremony in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome in 1610, Cerano produced banners, embroidery designs for vestments and altar frontals, and six paintings depicting the saint's miracles. These Roman works presented simple, more balanced and symmetrical compositions and large, less contorted figures, possibly reflecting contact with Giulio Cesare Procaccini's art."
– from curator's notes at the Getty Museum
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi Miracle of St Charles Borromeo curing the cancerous leg of Aurelia degli Angeli 1610 oil on canvas Duomo, Milan |
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi Christ and the Woman of Samaria at the Well ca. 1610-20 oil on canvas Collezione Koelliker, Milan |
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi The Flagellation before 1632 oil on panel Palazzo Borromeo, Isola Bella, Stresa |
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi The Resurrection before 1632 oil on canvas Chiesa di Sant' Antonio Abate, Milan |
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi Christ appearing to St Peter and St Paul ca. 1626-28 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi Esther before Ahasuerus before 1632 oil on canvas Musée Calvet, Avignon |
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi St Francis appearing to the Dying ca. 1610-20 oil on panels Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco, Milan |
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi Study of a Franciscan Monk ca. 1600 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| attributed to Giovanni Battista Crespi Christ on the Cross, with St Mary Magdalen, the Virgin, and St John before 1632 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Battista Crespi Figure Study of Bearded Man ca. 1618 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Giovanni Battista Crespi Hercules and Antaeus before 1632 drawing British Museum |