Bernardino Capitelli (1590–1639)

• Was an Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period.
• He was born in Siena.

• He became a pupil of Alessandro Casolani, and then of Rutilio Manetti.

• Between the years 1622 and 1637 was active in both at Rome and at Siena.

• Among his etchings are a Portrait of Alessandro Casolani, a St. Anthony of Padua (1637), a Marriage of St. Catharine after Correggio, a nocturnal Repose in Egypt after Rutilio Manetti, a Lot and his Daughters after Manetti.

• Capitelli overcame his shortcomings as a draughtsman and achieved the unique position of virtually the only tenebrist etcher in Italy.

• The use of abrupt contrasts of light and dark is characteristic of Capitelli's work. 

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