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Guido Canlassi

1601–1663

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Guido Cagnacci was an Italian Baroque painter from Santarcangelo di Romagna whose mature works deploy chiaroscuro to render sensual, often intimate subjects with theatrical intensity. Influenced by the Bolognese School masters, he developed a distinctive approach to light and shadow that emphasized the physical presence and psychological complexity of his figures. His paintings merge the dramatic tenebrism of Caravaggio's circle with the classical restraint of Emilian tradition.

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Art Institute of ChicagoChicago

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Artworks (18)

Assumption (recto) Portrait Heads, various Sketches (verso)

1700 · Red chalk with brush and brown and gray wash (recto). Graphite with brush and gray green and brown wash (verso) on ivory laid paper, tipped onto cream laid paper

24.5 × 18.4 cm (9 11/16 × 7 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Repentant Magdalene

1661 · oil paint

The Death of Cleopatra

1661 · oil paint

The Penitent Magdalen

1658 · oil paint

Emperor Leopold I in coronation armor

1657 · oil paint

Allegory of Life

1650 · oil paint

Allegory of human life

1650 · oil paint

Jacob Peeling the Rods

1650 · oil paint

David and Goliath

1650 · oil paint

David with the Head of Goliath

1645 · oil paint

Jeune martyre mort (Sainte Mustiole?)

1640 · oil paint

Allégorie de la ' Vanitas ' et de la Pénitence

1640 · oil paint

The drunkenness of Noah (Genesis 9:21)

1639 · oil paint

Allegory of the human life

Head of a woman in left profile, looking down

Penitent Magdalene

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18 published of 18 catalogued · 18 with image

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Allégorie de la ' Vanitas ' et de la Pénitence
1640 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Cleopatra
1750 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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The Repentant Magdalene
1661 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Allegory of Life
1650 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Emperor Leopold I in coronation armor
1657 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Jeune martyre mort (Sainte Mustiole?)
1640 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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The Penitent Magdalen
1658 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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The drunkenness of Noah (Genesis 9:21)
1639 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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Jacob Peeling the Rods
1650 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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David with the Head of Goliath
1645 · Wikidata · 5 prov
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