Cesare Gennari

 ( Painters From Bologna ) 

Cesare Gennari (12 December 1637 – 11 February 1688Dates in A. Rusconi, La municipale Pinacoteca di Cento 1861:12 : "VIII Gennari Cesare Centese") was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. His Saint Mary Magdalene is in the Pinacoteca Civica di Cento. His Apparition of the Virgin to Saint Nicholas of Bari is at the Pinacoteca di Bologna. Brevi indicazioni della Galleria de' quadri..., 1867: no. 287.

In his later work Cesare "shed all traces of Guercinesque idiom, adopting instead the courtly accents of St James's and Saint-Germain".C.T. van Serooskerken, reviewing the Guercino exhibition "Guercino. Bologna, Cento and Frankfurt", The Burlington Magazine, 1991:865.

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Biography Son of Ercole Gennari and born at Cento, he was trained in the studio of his maternal uncle, Guercino,Guercino's sister, Lucia Barbieri, married Ercole Gennari in 1628. in Bologna. Cesare's uncle, Benedetto Gennari, and his brother, Benedetto II Gennari (1633–1715), were also painters in the circle of Guercino. Cesare and the younger Benedetto were heirs of Guercino's studio, papers and effects, preserved for some time at Casa Gennari, Bologna.E. Negro, M. Pirondini and N. Roio, La scuola del Guercino, 2004.

He married Francesca Ripa, and had two sons, Gianfrancesco and Filippo.Rusconi 1861. Among his pupils was Ercole Gaetano Bertuzzi.

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