Giuseppe Crespi

Giuseppe Maria Crespi ( born March 16, 1665 in Bologna, † July 16, 1747 ) was an Italian painter and etcher.

Crespi was called by his classmates because of his elegant appearance lo Spagnuolo, was a student Canutis and Cignanis, then by means of a camera obscura not only the people formed by the study of the Carracci, the most famous Venetians, Correggio, Baroccios and nature, on the street watching, but specifically interpreted the various games and reflexes of light was looking for.

His paintings are full of these and other oddities. He often admitted in heroic and sacred images broken images a job, and even in the shade and drapery he lapsed often into the mannered.

His paintings are characterized by their ease of composition, power of expression and liveliness of movement. In the Dresden Gallery are seen by him the seven sacraments, in the Munich Pinakothek a grieving nun and the Vienna Belvedere the centaur Chiron. Crespi died in 1747 in his native city of Bologna.

Painting

• Bookshelves
• Dice player
• Fair
• Hecuba appears polymnestor
• Cardinal Prospero Lambertini
• The Lute Player
• Flea viewfinder
• Self-portrait

Other works

• Achilles and the Centaur Chiron to 1700-05, canvas, 125 × 123 cm. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.
• Cupid and Psyche, by 1707-09, canvas, 214 × 133 cm. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi.
• Aeneas, the Sibyl and Charon to 1700-05, canvas, 129 × 127 cm. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.
• Peasant family, 1710, canvas, 57 × 57 cm. Budapest, Magyar Szépmüvészeti Muzeum.
• Massacre of the Innocents, 1706, canvas, 133 × 189 cm. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi.
• Glare Polymnestors by the Trojan Women, to 1700-05, canvas, 173 × 184 cm. Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts.
• Young man with a lute, around 1700, Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum
• The Feast in the house of the Pharisee, 1685-90, canvas, 188 × 248 cm. Chicago, Art Institute.