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Michelangelo Cerquozzi
(b Rome, 18 Feb. 1602; d Rome, 6 Apr. 1660). Italian painter, known as ‘Michelangelo of the Battles’ because of his predilection for scenes of combat. He spent all his ...
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The Oxford Companion to Western Art
..., Michelangelo ( 1602–60 ). Italian painter who was active in his native city of Rome. Cerquozzi may have begun his career as a battle painter, and was nicknamed ‘Michelangelo delle Battaglie’; but he became best known as a painter of Bambocciante , small scenes from popular life, a genre created by the Dutch artist van Laer . Cerquozzi's Artist with a Group of Friends (Kassel, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen) is fresh and lively, and vividly evokes an everyday Rome of crumbling ruins, strewn with fragments of Antique sculpture. He painted some...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
..., Michelangelo ( b Rome, 18 Feb. 1602 ; d Rome, 6 Apr. 1660 ). Italian painter, known as ‘Michelangelo of the Battles’ because of his predilection for scenes of combat. He spent all his career in Rome, where he had considerable contact with northern painters; his friendship with the Dutchman Pieter van Laer led to his becoming the leading Italian exponent of bambocciate (small pictures of low-life and peasant...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (5 ed.)
..., Michelangelo ( b Rome , 18 Feb. 1602 ; d Rome , 6 Apr. 1660 ). Italian painter , known as ‘Michelangelo of the Battles’ because of his predilection for scenes of combat. He spent all his career in Rome, where he had considerable contact with northern painters; his friendship with the Dutchman Pieter van Laer led to his becoming the leading Italian exponent of bambocciate (small pictures of low-life and peasant...
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Josef Heinz
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Abraham Janssen
Francisco de Holanda
Jacques Courtois
Adolf von Hildebrand
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... The supreme Italian sculptor, celebrated painter, architect and poet ( 1475–1564 ). His full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni . Michelangelo of battle scenes, The Michelangelo Cerquozzi ( 1602–60 ), a native of Rome, famous for his battle scenes and shipwrecks. Michelangelo of Music, The Christoph Willibald von Gluck ( 1714–87 ), the German composer. Michelangelo of Sculptors, The Pierre Puget ( 1620–94 ), the French sculptor. Also René Slodtz ( 1705–64...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
...from whom the name derives. They specialized in bambocciate (the singular is bambocciata or ‘childishness’), small genre scenes of everyday Italian life. Most of the artists in the group were of north European origin, though there were also some Italians such as Michelangelo Cerquozzi . Van Laer returned to his native Haarlem in 1639 . See Schildersbent...
Miel, Jan (1599–1664) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
...nickname ‘Bieco’ (‘threatening look’). Genre scenes by a fellow countryman, Pieter van Laer (known as Il Bamboccio), were a formative influence. By the 1640s Miel's subject matter became more varied with scenes from town and country life, sometimes collaborating with Michelangelo Cerquozzi . Miel's spirited and confident Carnival in the Piazza Colonna (Hartford, Conn., Wadsworth Atheneum) is typical of his maturity. Clare Ford-Wille Sutton, P. , Masters of 17th Century Dutch Landscape Painting , exhib. cat. 1987 (Amsterdam, Boston,...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
...His work proved popular with collectors and he inspired numerous followers who were known as the ‘Bamboccianti’. They were mainly other northerners working in Rome, such as the Flemings Jan Miel ( 1599–1663 ) and Michiel Sweerts , but also included Italians such as Michelangelo Cerquozzi and Viviano Codazzi ( 1611–72 ). Their pictures are called bambocciate (the singular is bambocciata —Italian for childishness) or in French bambochades ; an English equivalent—bambocciade—exists, but it is rarely used. In about 1638 van Laer returned to his...
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The Oxford Companion to Western Art
...Born in the Franche-Comté—hence his nickname ‘Le Bourguignon’ (or in Italian ‘Il Borgognone’)—he spent his entire life from the age of 15 in Italy. He trained in Bologna, Florence, and Siena, and was settled in Rome by 1640 , where he probably knew the battle painter Michelangelo Cerquozzi and the Flemish genre painter Pieter van Laer . Jacques's battle scenes have a Baroque sense of drama, a deftness of touch, and an evocative atmosphere that made him much in demand in his lifetime and ensured that subsequently vast numbers of inferior pictures have...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (5 ed.)
...His work proved popular with collectors and he inspired numerous followers who were known as the ‘Bamboccianti’. They were mainly other Northerners working in Rome, such as the Flemings Jan Miel ( 1599–1663 ) and Michiel Sweerts , but also included Italians such as Michelangelo Cerquozzi and Viviano Codazzi ( 1611–72 ). Their pictures are called bambocciate (the singular is bambocciata —Italian for ‘childishness’) or in French bambochades ; an English equivalent—bambocciade—exists, but it is rarely used. In about 1638 van Laer returned to his...
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