Giuseppe Maria Crespi
1665 – 1747
Giuseppe Maria Crespi, called Lo Spagnuolo, Bolognese painter. He reacted against the academic tradition on which he was trained ( Cignani was one of his teachers) and specialized in genre subjects, with violent chiaroscuro effects of brilliant colour against dark backgrounds. They are in the tradition of the everyday-life paintings of the Carracci, but go far beyond them in their sense of unvarnished reality (The Hamlet, Pinacoteca, Bologna).
30 artworks in collection
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