Carlo Bononi

Carlo Bononi (1569? - 1632) was an Italian painter.

From an 1876 book:

Giulio Cromer, Carlo Bononi a pupil of Bastaruolo, and Alfonso Rivarola or Chenda, were the last artists of any eminence in Ferrara.[1]

Biography
Guardian Angel, (late 1620s, National picture gallery at Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara)

Born and active mainly in Emilia and Ferrara, and considered to be mainly a painter of the School of Ferrara. He studied painting under Giuseppe Mazzuoli, known as il Bastarolo.[1] He knew Guercino and was eulogized by Guido Reni as having a "bounty of a most honest life, a great knowledge of design, and strength in colorizing". Bononi rose to prominence in Ferrara when the painter Scarsellino died, and the former called to Rome. He was initially buried in Santa Maria in Vado, for which he had helped decorate the ceiling with various canvases.

Among his pupils were Alfonso Rivarola (il Chenda), Giovanni Battista dalla Torre, and Camillo Berlinghieri. His nephew, Leonello Bononi was also a painter.

An important exhibition has been held at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara in Autumn 2017.

Selected works

References
  1. Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert (1876). In Venetia, Parma, the Emilia, the Marche, and morthern Tuscany. G. Routledge & sons. Page 175
  2. Sassu, Giovanni (1 February 2015). "Carlo Bononi e i colori "di cuore liquefatto"". MuseoinVita (in Italian). Retrieved 19 April 2017.

Sources
  • Fondazione Manodori website.
  • Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief (1986). National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (ed.). The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries. pp. 379–85.
  • Camillo Laderchi (1856). La pittura ferrarese, memorie. Googlebooks. pp. 148–153.
  • Census of Ferrarese Paintings and Drawings
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