Giacomo Cavedone

He belonged to the generation of Carracci-inspired or trained painters that included Giovanni Andrea Donducci (Mastelletta); Alessandro Tiarini, Lucio Massari, Leonello Spada and Lorenzo Garbieri.

He was born in Sassuolo, near Modena, and was able to obtain a three-year stipend to apprentice with Bernardino Baldi and Annibale Carracci.

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.

His principal works are the Adoration of the Magi,[2] the Four Doctors, Last Supper; and his masterpiece, the large altar painting in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Virgin and Child in Glory with Saints Petronio and Alo (1614).

While this painting has a traditional Ludovico Carracci-inspired structure, with a Madonna and her wafting robes hovering above donors, it also has an unusually rich Titianesque coloring for an Emilian painter.