Sacred Love Versus Profane Love (
1602-
1603).
Oil on canvas, 179 x 118 cm. Staatliche Museen,
Berlin.
Giovanni Baglione (1566–December 30 1643), was an Italian early baroque painter and historian of art.
Biography
A pupil of Francesco Morelli, he worked mainly in Rome, initially with a late-Mannerist
style.
He was notorious for his animosity towards Caravaggio, whose style had influenced him
much. The latter was forced to leave the city after Baglione's accusations of sodomy. Baglione's
Sacred love versus profane love, a response to Caravaggio's Love
Victorious, shows an angel (Sacred Love) interrupting a 'meeting' between Cupid (Profane Love) and the Devil
(portrayed with the face of Caravaggio).
His main works are frescoes which can be seen in the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, in the Cappella Borghese. For the church of Santa Maria dell'Orto he painted in the chapel of Our Lady with the Zuccheri
scenes from the life of the Blessed Virgin. Among other works which he
executed for this church is a painting of Saint Sebastian. An excellent example of
Baglione's work is The Last Supper at San Nicola in Carcere. From his brush
also there is a Saint Stephen in the Cathedral at Perugia, and in that of
Loreto a Saint Catherine. Pope Paul V knighted
Baglione a Knight of the Order of Christ for his painting of Saint Peter Raising Tabitha from the Dead (1607) in St. Peter's Basilica.
He published two books, The nine churches of Rome (1639) and The Lives of Painters, Sculptors, Architects and
Engravers (active from 1572-1642)[1](1642). The last
title is still seen as an important historical source for painters living in Rome during the life of Baglione.
See also
References
- ^ Le Vite de’ Pittori, scultori, architetti, ed Intagliatori dal Pontificato
di Gregorio XII del 1572. fino a’ tempi de Papa Urbano VIII. nel 1642.
Links
See Artists in biographies by Giovanni Baglione.
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