Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665 – 1747)

• Nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo ("The Spaniard").
• Was an Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School.
• His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits, but he is now most famous for his genre paintings.
• Giuseppe Crespi, together with Giambattista Pittoni, Giovan Battista Tiepolo, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Canaletto and Francesco Guardi forms the traditional great Old Masters painters of that period.
• By age 12 years, he apprenticed with Angelo Michele Toni.
• From the age of 15–18 years, he worked under the Bolognese Domenico Maria Canuti.
• The displayed painting is a crop from Giuseppe Maria Crespi, The Centaur Chiron and Achilles, c. 1695-1700.
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Giuseppe Maria Crespi, The Centaur Chiron and Achilles, c. 1695-1700

Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-19.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, The Centaur Chiron and Achilles, c. 1695-1700

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Chancellor Florius Senesius, c. 1730-40

Original, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Visited in 2018.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Chancellor Florius Senesius, c. 1730-40

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Blessed Bernard Tolomei Interceding for the Cessation of the Plague in Siena, 1735

Original, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Visited in 2018.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Blessed Bernard Tolomei Interceding for the Cessation of the Plague in Siena, 1735

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Aeneas, the Sibyl and Charon, c, 1695-1705

Original, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. Visited in 2017-19.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Aeneas, the Sibyl and Charon, c, 1695-1705

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Peasants with Donkeys, 1709

Original, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Visited in 2018.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Peasants with Donkeys, 1709

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Portrait of Count Fulvio Grati, 1720-23

Original, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Visited in 2018.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Portrait of Count Fulvio Grati, 1720-23

The Wedding at Cana, c. (1686) Art Institute of Chicago

Original, Art Institute of Chicago. Visited in 2018.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, The Way to Calvary, c. 1738-42

Original, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. Visited in 2019.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, An Artist in his Studio, 1730s

Original, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. Visited in 2019.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Jupiter Among the Corybantes, c. 1730

Original, The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX. Visited in 2020.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Hecuba Blinding Polymnestor

Original, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Visited in 2022.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Woman Tuning a Lute, about 1700-05

Original, Museum of Fine Art Boston. Visited in 2018-2023.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, The Flight to Egypt, ca. 1710 – 1725

Original, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Visited in 2022.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, The Flight to Egypt, ca. 1710 – 1725

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, The Visitation, ca. 1710 – 1720

Original, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Visited in 2022.

Giuseppe Maria Crespi, The Visitation, ca. 1710 – 1720