Sirani, Giovanni Andrea

Giovanni Andrea Sirani (1610–1670)

• Was an Italian Baroque painter from Bologna.
• He is best known as the father of the female painter Elisabetta Sirani.
• Sirani trained initially with Giacomo Cavedone, then worked in the studio with Guido Reni.
• He became entangled in various conspiracies circling around the death of his daughter in 1665.
• While Giovanni accused a maid of poisoning his daughter, others saw Giovanni as the origin of death from stomach ulcer by overwork.
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Circle of Giovanni Andrea Sirani and Circle of Elisabetta Sirani, Judith with the Head of Holofernes, 1638-1665

Original, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. Visited in 2021.

Circle of Giovanni Andrea Sirani and Circle of Elisabetta Sirani, Judith with the Head of Holofernes, 1638-1665

Attributed to Giovanni Andrea Sirani After Guido Reni, Judith grasping the head of Holofernes by the hair and looking to the left, an old woman at right, 1600–1640

Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2023.

Attributed to Giovanni Andrea Sirani After Guido Reni, Judith grasping the head of Holofernes by the hair and looking to the left, an old woman at right, 1600–1640