Artist: Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665 - 1747)
Nationality: Italian
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Media: Painting,Drawing
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Biography:
Giuseppe Maria Crespi was trained in the traditional and classical style, but rejected it to develop his own dramatic techniques that used tenets of humanism and emphasized chiaroscuro. The Bolognese painters Ludovico Carracci and Guernico also impacted his work. Crespi traveled to Venice in 1690 and then to Parma where he admired the frescoes of Correggio. He favored religious and historical subjects painted with thick paint and strong light and dark contrasts. Crespi opened a school in Bologna in 1700 were he influenced his many Venetian students. He went blind at the end of his life.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Girl with a cat n.d. oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Self-Portrait c. 1712 oil on canvas University of Kentucky Art Museum Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Musicians 1710-1715 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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Saint Paul
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Tarquin and Lucretia c. 1695-1700 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Peasants with Donkeys 1710-1715 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Jupiter Among the Corybantes c. 1730 oil on copper Kimbell Art Museum Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Jesuit Mission c. 1710 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Saint Jerome in the Desert 1710-1720 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - The Young John the Baptist c. 1715 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Cupids Disarming Sleeping Nymphs c. 1690-1705 oil on copper National Gallery of Art Italian
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Non ho mai visto il piu* bello (I Have Never Seen Anyone More Handsome) , from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings, 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Giocatori smafaroni (Gamesters), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings, 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Sig.ri amirativi (Amazed Gentlemen), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings, 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Conversacione considerabile (A Lot of Talking), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings, 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian (Bolognese), 1665-1747 Chancellor Florius Senesius Oil on canvas 115.5 x 95.9
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Ballarina gentilissima ( Most Noble Ballerina), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings, 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Oche belle persÛne (Look at the Handsome One), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings, 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Sonatori sconcertati (Discordant Musicians), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings, 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Accademici scontornati (Drawing Academy for the Untalented), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings, 1686
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Uberiaconi fumanti (Totally Drunk[not a literal translation]), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli after Pietro de Rossi*s drawings, 1686
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Bernard Tolomei and the Plague in Siena
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Zuog dal cacciator (Game of the Hunter), 1699
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian (Bolognese), 1665-1747 Woman Playing a Lute about 1700-05 Oil on canvas
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Questo que tiene la canella in mano Ë il famoso Gianin da Capugnano (The One Holding the Little Cane [i.e. Chalk Holder} in His Hand is the Famous Gianin from Capugnano), from an unnumbered set of twelve caricatures engraved by Giu
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R. Persichini, Che muoja in braccia a Cristo, ed a Maria/ Impetrate o Giuseppe all* alma mia (That I should die in Christ*s arms, and Mary and Joseph pray for my soul), 17th century
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Frontispiece of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci in the Palazzo Fava, Bologna, 1663
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Man Subduing a Harpy, one of eight unnumbered plates of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carra
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Aeneas departs for the Battle, plate 5 of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracci in the
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Man Subduing a Harpy , one of eight unnumbered plates of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino C
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Man Subduing a Harpy , one of eight unnumbered plates of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino C
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Man Subduing a Harpy, one of eight unnumbered plates of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Ca
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Man Subduing a Harpy, one of eight unnumbered plates of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Ca
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Man Subduing a Harpy , one of eight unnumbered plates of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino C
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Man Subduing a Harpy , one of eight unnumbered plates of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino C
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Man Subduing a Harpy , one of eight unnumbered plates of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino C
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, The Greeks dragging Cassandra out of the Temple, plate 3 of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostin
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, The Shadow of Creusa Appears to Aeneas, plate 7 of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracc
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Venus leading Aeneas out of the Flames, plate 4 of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino Carracc
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Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Aeneas and his Companions Combat the Harpies, plate 10 of L"Enea Vagante Pitture dei Caracci (Wanderings of Aeneas Painted by the Carracci), from of a set of twenty prints after the paintings by Ludovico, Annibale, and Agostino

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (3)
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Fondazione Prada: Foujita. A Japanese Artist
The exhibition, designed by Pierluigi Cerri, will be housed in the Event Space on the sixth floor of the Prada Epicenter, which was conceived by Herzog & de Meuron and inaugurated last June. Constituting a foretaste of the celebration...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Italian Masterpieces From Raphael To Tiepolo
The works range in scale from intimate devotional paintings and portraits to state commissions, monumental altarpieces and mythological paintings. Italian Masterpieces from Raphael to Tiepolo will offer the public an unprecedented opportunity to e...
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery: The Renwick Invitational: Four Discoveries in Craft
The exhibition highlights 50 objects in various craft media. James Koehler of Santa Fe, N.M., weaves bold, colorful tapestries. Gyöngy Laky of San Francisco interlaces twigs, electrical wire and other found objects into nestlike baskets. Kristina ...

Further Artwork and Information:

Giuseppe Maria Crespi Online
Giuseppe Maria Crespi (Getty Museum)
CRESPI, Giuseppe Maria
Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665 - 1747) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Biography
Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Giuseppe Maria Crespi Artworks and Fine Art at arthistorynet.com
artnet.com: Resource Library: Crespi: (1) Giuseppe Maria Crespi
Amazon.com: Books: Giuseppe Maria Crespi: The Emergence of Genre Painting in Italy
Crespi, Giuseppe Maria

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