Bartolomeo Manfredi facts for kids
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Bartolomeo Manfredi
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Tavern Scene with a Lute Player by Bartolomeo Manfredi
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| Born | 25 August 1582 |
| Died | 12 December 1622 (aged 40) |
| Nationality | Italian |
Bartolomeo Manfredi (born August 25, 1582 – died December 12, 1622) was an Italian painter. He was a very important artist in the early 1600s. He was a leading member of the Caravaggisti, who were followers of the famous painter Caravaggio.
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The Life of Bartolomeo Manfredi
Early Life and Training
Bartolomeo Manfredi was born in Ostiano, a town near Cremona, Italy. He was born in 1582. He may have learned to paint from Caravaggio in Rome. Manfredi certainly followed Caravaggio's new and exciting painting style.
Caravaggio's style used strong contrasts between light and dark. This technique is called chiaroscuro. It also showed people and scenes in a very natural way. Manfredi was very good at telling stories through the expressions and body language in his paintings.
Spreading Caravaggio's Style
Caravaggio had a huge impact on younger artists. This was especially true in cities like Rome and Naples. Of all the artists who followed Caravaggio, Manfredi was one of the most important. He helped pass on Caravaggio's ideas to the next generation of painters. This was especially true for artists from France and the Netherlands who came to Italy.
We don't have any paintings by Manfredi that are signed by him. However, about forty works are now believed to be by him. Many of these paintings were once thought to be by Caravaggio himself. Experts have carefully studied these works. They now know that Manfredi was key in making "low-life" genre paintings popular. These paintings showed everyday scenes of ordinary people.
A Successful Artist
Manfredi was a very successful artist during his time. He was able to have his own servant before he was thirty years old. A writer named Giulio Mancini described him as "a man of distinguished appearance and fine behaviour." Even though he was successful, Manfredi was not very social.
He mostly painted pictures for private collectors. He did not seek out large public projects. However, his paintings were widely collected in the 1600s. Some people even thought he was as good as Caravaggio, or even better. One of his famous paintings is Mars Chastising Cupid. This painting might give us a hint about a lost work by Caravaggio.
Manfredi died in Rome in 1622. A painter named Gerard Seghers was one of his students.
Gallery
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Apollo and Marsyas, oil painting by Bartolomeo Manfredi, 1616-1620, Saint Louis Art Museum
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Caesar's Tribute, about 1610-20, Uffizi
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Soldier with the head of St. John the Baptist. Prado Museum, Madrid
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St. John the Baptist. A copy after Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, by Bartolomeo Manfredi. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
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Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus about 1617-19 Metropolitan Museum of Art
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See also
In Spanish: Bartolomeo Manfredi para niños
