Daniele Crespi (Busto Arsizio, 1598 – Milan, 19 July 1630) was an Italian painter.
Despite his premature death due to the Manzonia plague in 1630, he was one of the greatest exponents of seventeenth-century Lombardy.
The commission of another important Milanese monastic order, the Lateran canon of Santa Maria della Passione, dates back to the mid-1620s. For this important basilica, second only to Milan in size and second only to the Duomo, Crespi painted many works: some figures in the Lateran and saints in the central nave, Christ supported by angels, Baptist The door of the foot organ, the "raised" and the deposition on the cross, and one of his most drastic masterpieces, the fasting of St. Read the full biography
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Daniele Crespi (Busto Arsizio, 1598 – Milan, 19 July 1630) was an Italian painter.
Despite his premature death due to the Manzonia plague in 1630, he was one of the greatest exponents of seventeenth-century Lombardy.
The commission of another important Milanese monastic order, the Lateran canon of Santa Maria della Passione, dates back to the mid-1620s. For this important basilica, second only to Milan in size and second only to the Duomo, Crespi painted many works: some figures in the Lateran and saints in the central nave, Christ supported by angels, Baptist The door of the foot organ, the "raised" and the deposition on the cross, and one of his most drastic masterpieces, the fasting of St. Charles Borromeo. Crespi culminated in the fast of San Carlo Borromeo (Milan, Church of Santa Maria della Pacione) and in the cycle of San Bruno at the Certosa di Garegnano (or Certosa di Milano), completed in the years 1629, the reason lies in the reading and analysis of themes such as the definition of the environment, the psychological investigation of architectural scenes and characters.
In addition to producing works of religious subjects for the main monasteries of Milan, Crespi also enjoyed a great reputation as a portraitist. His most important works of this genre include Self-Portrait at the Uffizi (1627), Portrait of Manfredo Settala from the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Portrait of the Surgeon Enea Fioravanti from the Sforzesco Castle, Portrait of Antonio Olgiati from the Koelliker Collection Milan, Borromeo Collection Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman and Portrait of young man, Isola Bella, Stresa. He died in Milan in 1630, shortly after taking over the famous workshop of Camillo Procaccini, at the age of 30, a victim of the Manzoni plague. Due to his sudden death, he did not complete his most difficult work, the cycle of frescoes in the Certosa di Pavia, completed by his collaborators. Crespi's majestic cycle covers the entire choir wall, while the vault still retains the fresco decoration from the Renaissance period. It is a composed cycle containing scenes from the biography of New Testament saints, Carthusian saints and other saints, subtly inserted into the Gothic architecture through an intricate system of decorative blocks that make up large sacred scenes and ribbons. Tablets with isolated figures. , Doctors of the Church, Prophets, Witches, Carthusians and Blessed Saints. In his latest work, Crespi shows that he is progressively separating himself from the current that still permeates the custom he formed, dominated by the triad of Cerano, Morazzone and Giulio Cesare Procaccini, towards classicism of Carachesan origin.
In 2006 his hometown organized a thematic exhibition that brings together his works preserved in Italian and foreign museums.
