Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (1587–1625)

• Bartolomeo Cavarozzi was an Italian caravaggisti painter of the Baroque period.
• Bartolomeo Cavarozzi was born in Viterbo.
• He received some of his earliest training from Tarquinio Ligustri. • The earliest of his known works, Santa Ursula and his companions with Pope Ciríaco and Santa Catalina de Alejandría (1608) was painted for the church of the Confraternity of Sante Orsola e Caterina.
• At some point before 1617, Bartolomeo Cavarozzi was taken in and living in the palace of a Roman nobleman Giovanni Battista Crescenzi.
• Crescenzi was a painter and architect who had established an academy in Rome for young painters.
• An example of Cavarozzi's still-life painting is Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Wagtailsca (ca. 1615–18) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• He was active in Rome and in his home town of Viterbo.
• He died in Rome on 21 September 1625 at the relatively young age of thirty-eight.
• A contemporary from Viterbo, Filippo Caparozzi, was a disciple of Giuseppe d'Arpino.
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