CAVALLINO, Bernardo

Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1616-1656 Italian painter and draughtsman. He was the most individual and most poetic painter active in Naples during the first half of the 17th century. He painted mainly small cabinet pictures, on canvas or on copper, for dealers and for highly cultivated private patrons; he had few public commissions and apparently never painted any large-scale decorations for private or ecclesiastical patrons. His subject-matter is largely derived from the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha, Tasso and from Roman history and mythology. Documentary evidence for his life and work is almost non-existent, and he remains enigmatic and elusive as a historical figure. Yet as a painter he is strikingly distinctive, uniting a refinement and virtuosity of brushwork with an intensely naturalistic observation of surfaces, and complex and dramatic compositions with an extraordinary brilliance of palette. Only eight pictures are signed, initialled or inscribed with Cavallino's name. No works are documented and only five may be tentatively identified with pictures in mid-18th-century Neapolitan collections described by Bernardo de Dominici.
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CAVALLINO, Bernardo The Ecstasy of St Cecilia df oil


The Ecstasy of St Cecilia df
Painting ID::  5977 		The Ecstasy of St Cecilia df
1645 Oil on canvas Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
1645 Oil_on_canvas Museo_Nazionale_di_Capodimonte,_Naples
   
   
     
CAVALLINO, Bernardo St Peter and Cornelius the Centurion dfg oil


St Peter and Cornelius the Centurion dfg
Painting ID::  5978 		St Peter and Cornelius the Centurion dfg
1640s Oil on canvas, 102 x 127 cm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
   
   
     
CAVALLINO, Bernardo Clavichord Player df oil


Clavichord Player df
Painting ID::  5979 		Clavichord Player df
Oil on canvas Mus??e des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
Oil_on_canvas Mus??e_des_Beaux-Arts,_Lyon
   
   
     
CAVALLINO, Bernardo Esther and Ahaseurus df oil


Esther and Ahaseurus df
Painting ID::  5980 		Esther and Ahaseurus df
1645-50 Oil on canvas, 75 x 102 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
   
   
     
CAVALLINO, Bernardo The Blessed Virgin fdg oil


The Blessed Virgin fdg
Painting ID::  5981 		The Blessed Virgin fdg
1650 Oil on canvas, 167 x 118 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
   
   
     
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     CAVALLINO, Bernardo
     Italian Baroque Era Painter, ca.1616-1656 Italian painter and draughtsman. He was the most individual and most poetic painter active in Naples during the first half of the 17th century. He painted mainly small cabinet pictures, on canvas or on copper, for dealers and for highly cultivated private patrons; he had few public commissions and apparently never painted any large-scale decorations for private or ecclesiastical patrons. His subject-matter is largely derived from the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha, Tasso and from Roman history and mythology. Documentary evidence for his life and work is almost non-existent, and he remains enigmatic and elusive as a historical figure. Yet as a painter he is strikingly distinctive, uniting a refinement and virtuosity of brushwork with an intensely naturalistic observation of surfaces, and complex and dramatic compositions with an extraordinary brilliance of palette. Only eight pictures are signed, initialled or inscribed with Cavallino's name. No works are documented and only five may be tentatively identified with pictures in mid-18th-century Neapolitan collections described by Bernardo de Dominici.

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