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CAVAROZZI, Bartolomeo:
Italian painter, Roman school (b. ca. 1590, Viterbo, d. 1625, Roma).
Italian painter, active also in Spain. His formative years were spent in Rome, where he went as a boy and where his first teacher was the Viterbese painter Tarquinio Ligustri. Through Ligustri he became acquainted with the aristocratic Roman family headed by the Marchese Virgilio Crescenzi (d 1592) and eventually lived with them in their home near the Pantheon and studied at Giovanni Battista Crescenzi's academy of art.
St Ursula and Her Companions with Pope Ciriacus and St Catherine of Alexandria g
1608
Oil on canvas, 280 x 220 cm
Basilica di San Marco, Rome
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