Francesco Costanzo Catanio

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Self-portrait, formerly believed to be of Caravaggio; Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, Hungary
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Christ Mocked, San Giorgio, Ferrara

Francesco Costanzo Catanio, (1602 – 3 July 1665) was a painter of the Italian Baroque period, born and mainly active in Ferrara.Template:R He was variously known as Catanio, Cattani, Cattaneo, or Cattanio, sometimes without the forename Francesco.Template:R

Life

Catanio was born in 1602 in Ferrara, at that time in the Papal States, now in Emilia-Romagna, the son of Giulio Cesare Catanio.Template:R He initially trained under Ippolito Scarsellino in Ferrara, until – because of his "...litigious and ill-tempered..." manner – his father sent him to Bologna to study in the school of Guido Reni.Template:R On the death of his father in 1627, he returned to Ferrara, where he came under the influence of Carlo Bononi, and began to paint in a style less influenced by Ludovico Carracci and more by Caravaggio.Template:R

Catanio was described as prone to carrying a sword, hunting, and brawls. He was so quarrelsome and had such a turbulent disposition that he passed the greater portion of his life in exile or in disgrace. After injuring a soldier, Catanio was forced to seek refuge in the monastery of San Francesco where he was employed in painting frescoes. He was able to travel with the Marchese Giraldi throughout Italy.[1] In 1654, he traveled briefly to Rome in the patronage of Cardinal Carlo Pio di Savoia.

Works

In his earliest works in Ferrara – a San Gregorio originally painted soon after 1630 for the church of that saint, now in Santa Maria dei Teatini, and the Coronazione di spine and Flagellazione in the Duomo from before 1636 – already show the influence of Caravaggio.Template:R He also painted studio portraits.[2]

His Martirio di San Matteo for the church of Template:Ill was probably painted soon after 1636, when the building was enlarged.Template:R During the Second World War two of his paintings were destroyed: a S. Luigi Gonzaga che rinuncia alla signoria di Castiglione in Santo Stefano (formerly in the Gesù); and an Orazione nell'Orto in Template:Ill.Template:R

References

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  1. Dizionario storico degli uomini illustri ferraresi, by Luigi Ughi, page 123.
  2. Fondazione Zeri, Portrait of Francesco Catanio.

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