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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Study for Fallen Angel 1655 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Conversion of St Paul (study for painting) before 1666 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Head of Bearded Man before 1666 drawing Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Standing Figure di sotto in su (study for ceiling fresco) ca. 1660 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
"The well-trodden path of Roman Baroque studies has left some interesting minor painters of the period by the wayside; one of these is the obscure Giovanni Angelo Canini. A pupil of Domenichino, throughout his career he was active in Rome, except for some brief interruptions. His paintings, principally for Roman palaces and churches, in which he achieved no great distinction, follow closely the style of his master. Giovanni Battista Passeri, his friend and biographer, recognized how Canini's failure as a painter was compensated for by a remarkable talent for drawing which expressed itself from the outset of his career. . . . Passeri, who in his Lives does not normally mention an artist's drawing, does so in Canini's case to criticize his incapability of matching this skill in his painting."
– from Drawings by Giovanni Angelo Canini, an article by Nicholas Turner in the Winter 1978 issue of the journal Master Drawings
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Classical Landscape before 1666 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Landscape with Bridge and Castle before 1666 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Copy after a Statue known as the Cesi Atalanta (possibly from Cassiano dal Pozzo's Paper Museum) before 1666 drawing Teylers Museum, Haarlem |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Copy after a Sculpture of the Sleeping Eros based on an Antique Model (from Cassiano dal Pozzo's Paper Museum) ca. 1630 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Figure-study before 1666 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Drawing Academy with Posed Model on Dais ca. 1633-66 drawing British Museum |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Allegorical Composition with Young Man kneeling before a Tree before 1666 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Studies of Drapery, Tree and Woman's Head before 1666 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Scene of Martyrdom before 1666 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Angelo Canini Martyrdom of St James the Less before 1666 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |