Carlo Saraceni (1579 – 16 June 1620) was an Italian early- Baroque painter, whose reputation as a "first-class painter of the second rank" was improved with the publication of a modern monograph in 1968.
11-662: Saraceni is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Carlo Saraceni (1579–1620), Italian painter Enrico Saraceni (born 1964), Italian athlete Fernando Saraceni (1891–1956), Italian footballer Giovanni Michele Saraceni (1498–1568), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal Giulio Saraceni (d. 1640), Italian Roman Catholic bishop Julio Saraceni (1912–1998), Argentine film director Ottavio Saraceni (d. 1623), Italian Roman Catholic bishop Paulo César Saraceni (1933–2012), Brazilian film director and screenwriter [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
22-506: Is a church in Rome , Italy. It is dedicated in honor of Mary, mother of Jesus , and is located on Piazza Capranica. The church is ancient—it was restored by Pope Gregory III in the 8th century, and thus must have existed before then. One theory is that it was the titulus Equitii , though San Martino ai Monti is a more likely candidate. It is also referred to as Santa Maria della Visitazione , notably by Pope Urban VI in 1389. The origins of
33-498: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Carlo Saraceni Though he was born and died in Venice , his paintings are distinctly Roman in style; he moved to Rome in 1598, joining the Accademia di San Luca in 1607. He never visited France , though he spoke fluent French and had French followers and a French wardrobe. His painting, however, was influenced at first by
44-671: Is numbered among the first of the " tenebrists " or " Caravaggisti ". Examples of this style can be seen in the candlelit Judith with the Head of Holofernes . Saraceni's style matured rapidly between 1606 and 1610, and the next decade gave way to his fully mature works, synthesizing Caravaggio and the Venetians. In 1616–17 he collaborated on the frescoes for the Sala Regia of the Palazzo del Quirinale . In 1618 he received payment for two paintings in
55-413: The surname Saraceni . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saraceni&oldid=1243723507 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
66-466: The 17th and 18th centuries. The facade was completed by 1774 by Pietro Camporese the Elder , based on designs of Giovanni Francesco Braccioli . The interior was redecorated by Cesare Mariani in 1866. Two chapels have paintings by followers of Caravaggio : the third chapel at right has a Virgin and Saints (1617) by Carlo Saraceni , while the second chapel on the left has three canvasses – Deposition from
77-565: The Daughters of Jethro, and Mars and Venus . When Caravaggio's notorious Death of the Virgin was rejected in 1606 as an altarpiece suitable for a chapel of Santa Maria della Scala , it was Saraceni who provided the acceptable substitute, which remains in situ , the only securely dated painting of his first decade in Rome. He was influenced by Caravaggio 's dramatic lighting, monumental figures, naturalistic detail, and momentary action, so that he
88-799: The church of Santa Maria dell'Anima . The compositional details of his fresco of The Birth of the Virgin in the Chapel of the Annunciation of the church of Santa Maria in Aquiro are repeated in a panel on copper at the Louvre . In 1620 he returned to Venice, where he died in the same year. Work by Saraceni can also be seen in the Roman church of San Lorenzo in Lucina . Santa Maria in Aquiro Santa Maria in Aquiro
99-552: The densely forested, luxuriantly enveloping landscape settings for human figures of Adam Elsheimer , a German painter resident in Rome; "there are few landscapes by Saraceni which have not been attributed to Elsheimer," Malcolm Waddingham observed, and Anna Ottani Cavina has suggested the influences may have travelled both ways. and Elsheimer's small cabinet paintings on copper offered a format that Saraceni employed in six landscape panels illustrating The Flight of Icarus ; in Moses and
110-592: The name are nebulous; most attribute it to a corruption of the term a Cyro , perhaps referring in early days to a neighborhood resident named Cyrus or deriving from Cyrus . According to another theory Acyro refers to a corruption of the Latin word circus , a stadium for horse racing ; the Circus Flaminius was located in the vicinity. In 1540 Pope Paul III granted the church to the Confraternity of Orphans, and it
121-476: Was restored in 1588. The most important work of art in the church is a 14th-century painting, in the apse, of the Madonna and Child with St Stephen , attributed to the school of Pietro Cavallini . This painting and the funeral lapidary monuments in the vestibule are from the medieval church of Santo Stefano del Trullo, destroyed during the pontificate of Pope Alexander VII (1655–1667). There are also paintings from
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