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Giuseppe Maria Crespi
1710 - 1715
Medium
etching
Dimensions
224; 151
About this artwork
Purchased with the support of the J.W. Edwin Vom Rath Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
About the Artist
Giuseppe Maria Crespi · 1665–1747
Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665–1747) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period whose innovative genre scenes and unorthodox approach to religious painting made him one of the most original artists of early eighteenth-century Bologna. Born in Bologna, he trained under Domenico Maria Canuti, Carlo Cignani, and in the tradition of the Carracci academy, but developed a markedly personal style tha...