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Guido Cagnacci

Guido Cagnacci (1601 - 1663) was active/lived in Italy.  Guido Cagnacci is known for Eroticized religious and mythology painting, chiaroscuro.

CAGNACCI’S ‘REPENTANT MAGDALENE’
Through Jan. 22. Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan; 212-288-0700,

The 17th-century Italian painter Guido Cagnacci isn’t well known in this country, although he has become something of a cult figure to scholars of art made in his region, Romagna. In his time, he achieved modest fame for his skirting of marital laws (he tried to elope with a wealthy widow, and was said to be living in sin with young women who were disguised as male apprentices) and for his eroticized religious and mythological scenes, in which the exposed female torso figured prominently. (This genre is typified by his variations on the theme of a dying Cleopatra, one of which is at the Italian Cultural Institute through Jan. 19, with another in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum and currently on view.)

Late in his career, however, he stepped up his game with a large, ambitious multi-figure scene, the Repentant Magdalene, thought to   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5295 characters.]  Artist bio

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