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GUGLIELMO CACCIA known as THE MONCALVO
(Montabone, 1568 - Mo…
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Lot no. 54
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GUGLIELMO CACCIA known as THE MONCALVO
(Montabone, 1568 - Moncalvo, 1625)
Announcing Angel
Oil on canvas, cm 44X34
Guglielmo Caccia trained in the workshop of the Casalese painter Ambrogio Oliva, whose daughter Laura he married in 1589. His first works date back to 1585, when he produced the altarpieces for the Marene churches of the Annunciata and San Michele, which reveal the influence of Gaudenzio Ferrari and the Vercelli school. During the 1590s, the artist's style instead modulated itself on softer tones, as we can observe in the frescoes in the Oratory of San Pietro Martire in Casale Monferrato and at Sacro Monte di Crea, inaugurating a softly devotional vocabulary, related to Counter-Reformation values and Raphaelesque suggestions. Of great importance for Caccia's artistic evolution was his participation between 1605 and 1608 in the decoration of the Grand Gallery of Duke Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy alongside Federico Zuccari (Sant'Angelo in Vado, 1539 ; Ancona, 1609), which allowed him to confront himself with the Central Italian Manner, and it is to this moment that we can date the canvas under examination, which shows clear stylistic features of Roman and Bolognese matrix.
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