Giuseppe Caletti

Variant namesauktoriserad namnform: Giuseppe Caletti

DatesBiographical dates: Cirka 1600 - 1660 dead: dead c. 1660 born: born c. 1600

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BiographyBiography: Giuseppe Caletti, known as il Cremonese, most probably originated from the city of Cremona, hence the nickname, but was active in Ferrara from the 1620s onwards. His earliest biographers describe a painter of great talent, but one who was “very capricious”, and the artist’s dissolute life and arrogant attitude seem to have overshadowed his work, although it was later reappraised thanks to Nicola Ivanoff’s studies. Caletti was an eclectic artist, formed by a multitude of different influences, ranging from the Lombardy painters Romanino and Pordenone, through Titian, Giorgione and the Ferrarese Dosso Dossi, to the Bolognese school and Guercino’s early works. Caletti’s St Sebastian (Taddei Collection, Cento) is modelled on Titian’s painting of the same subject in the Averoldi polyptych (Santi Nazaro e Celso, Brescia). Caletti mainly undertook private commissions, often with biblical subjects. David and Goliath was the subject of a number of macabre renderings by the artist.

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