Francesco Cairo

Francesco Cairo (Santo Stefano, Milan, 1607 - Milan, 1665) are an Italian painter of the community post-mannerist or pre-baroque lombarde and borroméenne of the first decades of the Seicento.

Biography

It is subject to the influence of the Morazzone, as shows it its early works, Estasi di Sant' Andrea Avellino has S. Antonio Abate in Milan and the retable of Santa Teresa , today with chartreuse of Pavia, then it leaves in 1633, at the court of the Maison of Savoy to Turin.

It paints a series of paintings of rest with strongly religious topic, like its versions of Salome , Hérodiade and the Cristo nell' Orto .

Between 1637 and 1638, Cairo leaves to Rome, where it with the possibility of studying the traditional painting of the artists of the school émilienne (Guido Reni, Domenichino), Guerchin, Flemish late imitateurs of the Caravage and the first Baroque S (Giovanni Lanfranco, Pietro da Cortona).

It turns over then to Lombardy where it carries out some important retables, like the Madonna idiot Health Caterina da Siena E Caterina d' Alessandria for the Chartreuse of Pavia and the San Carlo Borromeo che impartisce preceded it comunione has San Luigi Gonzaga Casalpusterlengo.

In Piedmont between 1646 and 1649, it paints for the House of Savoy the large fabric with the Ritrovamento di Mosè and some retables for Savigliano and the church of S. Salvario of Turin.

Ludovico Antonio David and Pietro Scalvini was pami its pupils.

Works

  • Estasi di Sant' Andrea Avellino (1635), vault S. Andrea Avellino, church Sant' Antonio Abate, Milan
  • Erodiade idiot tested it del Battista , Galerie Sabauda (Turin)
  • Retable San Giovanni Battista , preserved at Aicurzio
  • Portrait of Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia painter and friend, Pinacothèque of Brera, Milan
  • Saint François in extase and Sainte Christine (1630), Castello Sforzesco, Milan
  • Assunzione , Orta
  • Saint Sebastien looked after by Irene (c.1635), museum of the Art schools, Turns
  • Portrait of woman to the turban (about 1630-1640), museum of the Art schools, Strasbourg
  • Herodias , Metropolitan Museum off Art, New York
  • Cleopatra , National Gallery off Australia

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