Ercole Gennari was born in Cento in 1597. After his first studies, he undertook the profession of surgeon and, meeting the painter Guercino, who had been his father's pupil, he often frequented his house, until he married his sister Lucia in 1628 and learned , under the guidance of his brother-in-law, drawing and painting, like his older brother Bartolomeo. Read the full biography
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Ercole Gennari was born in Cento in 1597. After his first studies, he undertook the profession of surgeon and, meeting the painter Guercino, who had been his father's pupil, he often frequented his house, until he married his sister Lucia in 1628 and learned , under the guidance of his brother-in-law, drawing and painting, like his older brother Bartolomeo. The biographer Calvi attributes to him the Madonna with Child and Saint Felice of Cantalice - now in the Pinacoteca of Cento, also attributed to his brother Bartolomeo - and a Trinity with the saints Orsola, Francesco and Antonio, in which Gennari imitates the mature style of the Master. After the death of Guercino's brother, Paolo Antonio, the main collaborator and administrator of his affairs, went to live with his wife and sons Benedetto and Cesare, in Bologna, in the house of the Maestro who, without a family of his own, needed someone to take care of relationships with customers and manage his assets, which he left as an inheritance to his young nephews to whom he had also taught to paint. Ercole Gennari was buried in the family chapel of the Bolognese church of San Nicola degli Albari. He died in Bologna in 1658.
