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Guido Cagnacci (19 January 1601 – 1663) was an Italian painter originally from Santarcangelo di Romagna. Associated most readily with the Baroque period, his mature works are characterized by their use of chiaroscuro and their sensual subjects. He was influenced by the masters of the Bolognese School.
The erotic energy of the extraordinary canvases of Cagnacci
Saint Sisto pope (1627), Museo di Saludecio e del Beato Amato, Saludecio, Rimini - Italy
Procession of the Holy Sacrament (1628) Museo di Saludecio e del Beato Amato, Saludecio, Rimini - Italy
Christ with Saints Joseph and Eligius (1635)
Madonna with saints Andre Corsini Teresa and Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1640, Santarcangelo di Romagna)
Frescoes in Cappella della Madonna del Fuoco (Duomo, Forlì)
Allegory of spheral Astrology (Pinacoteca civica, Forlì)
Glory of Saints Valerian and Mercurial (Faenza)
Leopold I portrait (Vienna)
Calling of Saint Matthew (Museo della Città - Rimini)
Allegorical Naked Figure (private)
The Death of Cleopatra (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
Death of Cleopatra (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Vienna)
Death of Lucretia [1]
The Repentant Magdalene (Norton Simon Museum)
Music:
The Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017 is a piece for violin with keyboard accompainment composed by Johann Sebastian Bach around 1717-23
musopen.org/music/43248-violin-sonata-in-c-minor-bwv-1017
Perfomer: Josef Suk
Guido Cagnacci (19 January 1601 – 1663) was an Italian painter originally from Santarcangelo di Romagna. Associated most readily with the Baroque period, his mature works are characterized by their use of chiaroscuro and their sensual subjects. He was influenced by the masters of the Bolognese School.
The erotic energy of the extraordinary canvases of Cagnacci
Saint Sisto pope (1627), Museo di Saludecio e del Beato Amato, Saludecio, Rimini - Italy
Procession of the Holy Sacrament (1628) Museo di Saludecio e del Beato Amato, Saludecio, Rimini - Italy
Christ with Saints Joseph and Eligius (1635)
Madonna with saints Andre Corsini Teresa and Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1640, Santarcangelo di Romagna)
Frescoes in Cappella della Madonna del Fuoco (Duomo, Forlì)
Allegory of spheral Astrology (Pinacoteca civica, Forlì)
Glory of Saints Valerian and Mercurial (Faenza)
Leopold I portrait (Vienna)
Calling of Saint Matthew (Museo della Città - Rimini)
Allegorical Naked Figure (private)
The Death of Cleopatra (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)
Death of Cleopatra (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, Vienna)
Death of Lucretia [1]
The Repentant Magdalene (Norton Simon Museum)
Music:
The Violin Sonata in C minor, BWV 1017 is a piece for violin with keyboard accompainment composed by Johann Sebastian Bach around 1717-23
musopen.org/music/43248-violin-sonata-in-c-minor-bwv-1017
Perfomer: Josef Suk










![Giotto di Bondone
Giotto di Bondone (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒɔtto di bonˈdoːne]; c. 1267 – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto (UK: /ˈdʒɒtoʊ/,US: /dʒiˈɒtoʊ, ˈdʒɔːtoʊ/) and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/Proto-Renaissance period.
Giottos contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature and of his publicly recognized talent and excellence. In his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break with the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years.
Music:
Violin Sonata no. 2 in A minor Giotto di Bondone](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ondLdJ-jues/mqdefault.jpg)