Artist: Giovanni Battista Crespi (1575 - 1633)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Mannerism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Giovanni Battista Crespi was born in the small Italian town Cerano but worked mostly in Milan. He worked briefly in Rome before settling in Milan in the late 1590’s where he worked for Cardinal Federico Borromeo, the archbishop of Milan. The Cardinal founded the Accademia Ambrosiana in 1620 and put Crespi as the head of the painting department. He also hired him to oversee the sculptural decoration of the Milan Cathedral in 1629. Crespi’s paintings are a combination of Mannerist and Baroque styles.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Giovanni Marco Pitteri St. Philip, after a chalk drawing by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Engraving 1742
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Giovanni Battista Volpato Mansuetudo, after Raphael Engraving 17th - 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Volpato The Prophet Joel, after Michelangelo Engraving 17th century
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Giovanni Battista Volpato The Prophet Daniel, after Michelangelo Engraving 17th century
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Giovanni Battista Volpato Il Fornajo(the Baker), after F. Maggiotto Engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo Etching and engraving 18th century
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Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo Saint Thecla Praying for the end of the plague in the city of Este, after the painting of 1759 by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Etching 18
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Saint Paul
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Rialto, after Canaletto Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Doge Offers a Banquet, after Canaletto Etching and engraving 1766
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Giovanni Battista Nini Seaport Etching 1740
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Giovanni Battista Benaschi The Holy Family with Angels, after the painting by Giovanni Domenico Cerrini etching mounted on heavier sheet 1652
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Giovanni Battista Carlone St. Peter oil on canvas 16th - 17th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Rialto Bridge, after Canaletto Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Bucentaro on Ascension Day, after Canaletto Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Piazza S. Marco, after Canaletto Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Nini Landscape with a river Etching 1740
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Giovanni Battista Nini Winter Landscape Etching 1740
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Giovanni Battista Canossa Pilate and the Pharisees Woodcut 1706
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Giovanni Battista Zelotti The Antique Sacrifice etching 16th century
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Andrea Le Jeune Scacciati The Flagellation (?), after Giovanni Battista Paggi, from the series Disegni originali d'eccelenti pittori... Etchingin green ink 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Piazza S. Giacomo in Rialto, after Moretti Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Church of the Redeemer, at Night, after Canaletto Etching and engraving 18th century
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Artist: Circle of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Title: A Boy and a Girl (Lovers) Date: 18th
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Giovanni Battista Nini Wind-blown Landscape Etching 1740
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Piazza and Church of S. Giacomo in Rialto, after Moretti Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Piazza and Church of S. Giacomo in Rialto, after Moretti Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Church of S. Pietro in Castello, at Night, after Moretti Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo River Gods, after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Etching mid 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni Wells in the Courtyard of the Ducal Palace, after Canaletto Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Falda The Fountain Above the Rustic Fountain at the Villa Aldobrandini, plate 10 from the series Le fontane delle ville di Frascati...(The fountains of the villas of Frascati...) Etching circa 1675
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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi Title: Great Piazza and Basilica of St. Peter"s from the "Le
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Giovanni Battista Naldini Recto: St. Matthew and the Angel~Verso: Pieta r:Pen and brown ink and brown wash over red chalkwith black chalk on laid paperv: Black chalk with traces of red chalk 16th century
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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi Title: The Lion Bas Reliefs, from The Prisons Series Date: 1761
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Artist: Giovanni Battista Foggini Title: Study for a Console Date: 17th century Medium: pen and
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Artist: Baciccio (Giovanni Battista Gaulli) Title: Diana the Huntress Date: about 1690 Medium: oil on
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Three Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, and Lucy, ca. 1513 Giovanni Battista Cima (Italian, Venetian, born
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni View of the Bank Facing the Ducal Palace, after Canaletto Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Cappuccine church of the Servites on the Fondamente Nuova, after Canaletto Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Biblioteca Marciana and the Beginning of the Grand Canal, after Canaletto Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Cima Madonna and Child (The Quincy Shaw Madonna) oil on panel circa 1504
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Giovanni Battista Falda Fontana nella Piazza della Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore (Fountain in the Piazza of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore), pl. 9 from the series Le Fontane di Rome (Fountains of Rome) Etching 1691
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Artist: Giambattista Tiepolo (Giovanni Battista Tiepolo) Title: The Head of Truth Date: about 1744 Medium:
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Gateway to the Armory Etching and engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Brustoloni The Piazza S. Marco Etching and engraving 18th century
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Artist: Giovanni Battista Pittoni Title: Self Portrait Date: n.d. Medium: balck chalk, pencil, with a
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani John Milton Etching 1740
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani John Milton Etching 1740
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani Title Page 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Pasqualini Venus and Adonis with Cupid engraving 1620
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Giovanni Battista Pasqualini Virgin and Child, after Guercino Engraving 1621
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Giovanni-Battista Cecchi Christ in Limbo, after Bronzino Engraving 1777
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Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo Monument to the glory of Heroes, after the lost painting by Giovannia Battista Tiepolo for the Imperial Court at Moscow (1760s) Etching 18
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Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare, ca. 1510 Giovanni Battista Cima (Italian, Venetian,
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Artist: Pier-Leone Ghezzi Title: Caricature of Giovanni Battista Maini Date: 1749 Medium: pen and brown
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Giovanni Battista Pasqualini The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, after Guercino Engraving 1626
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Giovanni Battista Pasqualini The Betrayal and Arrest of Christ Engraving 1621
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Giovanni Battista Pittoni Descent from the Cross oil on canvas circa 1750
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani Bust of John Milton Etching 1740
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Mercury Appearing to Aeneas in a Dream; after the fresco by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the Villa Valmarana, Vicenza Etching circa 1750
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Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard and after Giovanni-Battista Langetti Title: Saint Jerome in the desert Date: 18th
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Venice Receiving the Homage of Neptune, after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's painting for the Ducal Palace in Venice Etching 18th - 19th century
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Giovanni Battista Cipriani John Milton Etching 18th century
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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Title: Male Nude Date: 18th century Medium: black chalk heightened with
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Giovanni Battista Pasqualini St. Jerome tempted by a Female Demon, after Guercino Engraving 1625
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Giovanni Francesco Venturini Cronos in a Niche, a Scene of Sacrifice and One of Triumph, after drawings by Galestruzzi from paintings by Polidoro da Caravaggio Engravings 17th century
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Giovanni Battista Pittoni Frame for "Descent from the Cross" oil on canvas circa 1750
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Artist: Giovanni Battista Piranesi Title: View of the Flavian Amphiteatre Date: 18th century Medium: etching
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Giovanni Battista Pasqualini David handing letter for Joab to Uriah, after Guercino Engraving 1627
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Giovanni Battista Pasqualini Virgin and Child to Whom an Angel Presents Fruit, after Guercino Engraving 1620
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Giovanni Battista Pasqualini Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist, after Guercino Engraving 17th century
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Comte de Caylus (Anne-Claude-Philippe de TubiËres) Le S. Esprit descendant sur les apÙtres (The Holy Spirit Descending on the Apostles), after a drawing by Giovanni Battista Lenardi in the collection of M. Crozat Color woodcut printed in green
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The Adoration of the Magi, sketch Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian, 1696-1770)Oil on canvas; 23
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Giovanni Battista Scultori (Mantovano) The River God Po and a Putto Engraving 1538
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Giovanni Battista Catenaro Apollo Surrounded by Putti Etching 16th - 17th century
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Giovanni Battista Moroni Portrait of a Gentleman (traditionally called Giulio Gilardi) oil on canvas circa 1550
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Portrait of a Man Giovanni Battista Moroni (Italian, Lombard, born no later than 1524, died
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Giovanni Battista Vanni Saint Surrounded by Seven Angels, after the painting by Correggio in the dome of the Parma cathedral Etching 17th century
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Portrait of the Artist's Father, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo etching circa 1775
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Giovanni Battista della Rovere Marriage of the Virgin Pen and brown ink and blue wash over black chalk on faded blue laid paper circa 1600
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Artist: attributed to Giovanni Battista Foggini Title: Jewelry Box Date: about 1700 - 1720 Medium:
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Giovanni Battista Mercati The Baptism of Christ Etching 1627
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Christian Friedrich Boetius Portrait of the painter Johannas (Giovanni Battista) Casanova Crayon manner Engraving 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Troccoli, American (born in Italy), 1882-1940 Mrs. Edwin Champney (Lady with a Tray)
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Giovanni Battista Moroni - A Man 16th century oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Italian
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Giovanni Battista Mercati [Virgin and Child and Saint?] 1626
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Francesca Ghirardi Lechi Giovanni Battista Gigola (Italian, Brescian, 1767-1841)Ivory; Diameter 2 5/8 in. (66 mm)Bequest
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Title Page, from the series of etchings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Vari Capricci Engraving 1785
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Giovanni Battista Mercati The Beheading of John the Baptist Etching 1626
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The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, sketch for a ceiling painting Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian,
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Giovanni Battista Scultori (Mantovano) The Resurrection, after Giulio Romano Engraving 1537
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Giovanni Battista Franco The Entombment Engraving 16th century
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Giovanni Battista Franco The Deluge Engraving 16th century
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Giovanni Battista Franco The Deluge Engraving 16th century
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Giovanni Battista Mercati Sotto St. Gioanne epoldo (Below SS. Giovanni e Paolo), pl. 22 from the series Alcune vedute et prospettive di luoghi dishabitati di Roma (Some Views and Perspectives of the Uninhabited Places of Rome) Etching 1629
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Adamo Scultori (Mantovano) Madonna Nursing the Child, after the engraving by Giovanni Battista Scultori Engraving circa 1560 - 1570
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Francesco (Felice) Polanzani Portrait of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, from the series Le Antichit‡ di Roma (The Antiquities of Rome) Etching 1750
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Giorgio Ghisi The Vision of Ezekiel, after Giovanni Battista Bertani Engraving 1554
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Giovanni Battista Busiri Classical Landscape Pen and brown ink with gray and brown washes over black chalk on laid paper 18th century
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Giovanni Battista Franco Abraham and Melchizedek ENG 15th - 16th century

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Fondazione Prada: Foujita. A Japanese Artist
The exhibition, designed by Pierluigi Cerri, will be housed in the Event Space on the sixth floor of the Prada Epicenter, which was conceived by Herzog & de Meuron and inaugurated last June. Constituting a foretaste of the celebration...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Italian Masterpieces From Raphael To Tiepolo
The works range in scale from intimate devotional paintings and portraits to state commissions, monumental altarpieces and mythological paintings. Italian Masterpieces from Raphael to Tiepolo will offer the public an unprecedented opportunity to e...
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery: The Renwick Invitational: Four Discoveries in Craft
The exhibition highlights 50 objects in various craft media. James Koehler of Santa Fe, N.M., weaves bold, colorful tapestries. Gyöngy Laky of San Francisco interlaces twigs, electrical wire and other found objects into nestlike baskets. Kristina ...

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