Bartolomeo Manfredi

Bartolomeo Manfredi (baptized the August 25th 1582 - December 12th 1622) was an Italian painter , one of the large disciples of the Caravage.

Manfredi was born with Ostiano, close to Cremona. Artist with success, having before its thirty years a servant attached to his person, a man of distinguished appearance and with the refined behavior according to the biographer Giulio Mancini, although not very sociable. It built its career around private customer orders and did not seek the public orders on which are based a greater notoriety. However its works enter large collection as of the 17th century when it was regarded as equal, if it is not higher than Caravage. Its Mars punishing Cupide offers an interesting allusion as for Caravage: the Master had promised a painting on this topic with Mancini, but another customer of Caravage, the cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, took it before him, Mancini then ordered from Manfredi to paint another for him of them. Manfredi died in Rome in 1622.

Biblioggraphy

Bartolomeo Manfredi (1582-1622): ein Nachfolger Caravaggios und the Seine europäische Wirkung: Monograph und Werkverzeichnis ; Nicole Hartje; Weimar: VDG, Verlag und Datenbank für Geisteswissenschaften, 2004.
Dopo Caravaggio: Bartolomeo Manfredi E the manfrediana methodus ; Arnauld Brejon de Lavergnée; Milano: A. Mondadori, 1987;

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