Cesare Fracanzano

Drunken Silenus, Museo del Prado, c. 1630-1635.

Two wrestlers, now in the Prado in Madrid

Saint Andreas

Cesare Fracanzano (1605-1651), a Neapolitan painter who flourished in the 17th century, was a pupil of Spagnoletto. There is in the Museo del Prado (Madrid) a picture by him, representing Two Wrestlers. His son, Michelangelo Fracanzano, who was also a painter, died in France about 1685. His brother Francesco was also a painter.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Fracanzano, Cesare". In Graves, Robert Edmund. Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

External links

Media related to Cesare Francazano at Wikimedia Commons
Jusepe de Ribera, 1591-1652, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on Cesare Fracanzano (see index)

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