Giacomo Cavedone (1577–1660) 

• Was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School.
• He was born in Sassuolo, near Modena.

• Was able to obtain a three-year stipend to apprentice with Bernardino Baldi and Annibale Carracci.

• In the autumn of 1609, he sojourned in Rome for a year to work under Guido Reni.

• He is known to have worked in Venice from 1612 to 1613.

• He became one of Ludovico Carracci's primary assistants, and upon Ludovico's death in 1619 became Caposindaco of the Accademia degli Incamminati. 

• His career as a painter was cut short by a set of misfortunes; these included a 1623 fall from a church scaffold and, in 1630, the death of his wife and children from the plague.

• The 1911 Britannica (where he is incorrectly called Jacopo Cavendone) claims his wife was accused of witchcraft.

• He lived until 1660, and died in poverty. 

• Among his pupils were Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Giovanni Battista Cavazza, Ottavio Corradi, and Flaminio Torre.

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