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Giovanni Battista Crespi

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St. Charles Borromeo before dead Christ Print by Giovanni Battista Crespi

St. Charles Borromeo before dead Christ

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St Carlo Borromeo Erecting Crosses a the Gates of Milan (detail)

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Entombment of Christ

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St Gregory Delivers the Soul of a Monk

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Religious Figures Praying at the Foot of a Tree

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St Carlo Borromeo

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Christ appears to the apostles Peter and Paul

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Virgin and Child with Francisco Carlos Borromeo and Saint Catherine of Alexandria

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St. Charles Borromeo before dead Christ Print by Giovanni Battista Crespi

St. Charles Borromeo before dead Christ

Giovanni Battista Crespi (23 December 1573 – 23 October 1632), called Il Cerano, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect,


He was born in Romagnano Sesia, the son of a painter, Raffaele Crespi, and moved to Cerano with his family some years later. In 1591 he is known to have been living in Milan.
True to the Counter-Reformation piety zealously expressed in Milanese art of his time, his paintings focus on mysteries and mystical episodes in saintly life. The crowded canvases and the angles recall Mannerism, but his paintings show an emotion that evokes common sentiments in Baroque art. Along with other artists, he completed a series of paintings (Quadroni of St. Charles) of the life of St. Charles Borromeo[1] for the Duomo of Milan; an altarpiece with the Baptism of St. Augustine for San Marco, Milan; and a Mass of St. Gregory for the Basilica of San Vittore in Varese (1615–17). Also see the nightmarish, St. Gregory Delivers the Soul of a Monk (1617), also in San Vittore.

He was a scholar of considerable attainments, and held a position of dignity in Cerano. In 1620 he was appointed head of the Accademia Ambrosiana founded by Cardinal Federico Borromeo. Among his pupils were Daniele Crespi, Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, and Melchiorre Gherardini (died 1675) .

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Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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