Guglielmo Caccia
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Guglielmo Caccia called il Moncalvo (9 May 1568 – 1625) was an Italian painter of sacred subjects in a Mannerist style.
Biography
He was born in Montabone near Acqui. He is said to have been a pupil of Lorenzo Sabbatini. He started painting in Milan, then worked in Pavia, where he was made a citizen. He also painted in Novara, Vercelli, Alessandria, and Turin, and Genoa.
His best work, Deposition from the Cross, is at the church of
San Gaudenzio at Novara. At Moncalvo, the church of the Conventuali has numerous works by him; at the church of San Domenico, Chieri, he painted the Raising of Lazarus and the Miracle of the Loaves. He painted frescoes in the church of Confraternity of San Michele in Casale
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Among his pupils was Francesco Fea.
References
Alba, Italy
)- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 207.
- Lanzi, Luigi (1847). History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Vol. III. Translated by Roscoe, Thomas. London: Henry G. Bohn. pp. 299–301.
Further reading
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Guglielmo Caccia.
- Guglielmo Caccia detto il Moncalvo, a short biography taken from Alberto Cottino, Guglielmo Caccia detto il Moncalvo - Un pittore del '600, 1997.
External links
- MonferratoArte: Guglielmo Caccia called il Moncalvo (in Italian) from a historical and bibliographical directory of artists active in the extra-urban Churches of the Diocese of Casale Monferrato.
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