Spada, Lionello

Spada, Lionello, 1576-1622, Italian painter, active mainly in Emilia. His signature was an L placed across a sword [Ital. spada=sword]. His work shows influence of the grand manner of the Carracci, as in The Burning of Heretical Books (San Domenico, Bologna), and of Caravaggio's naturalism, seen in dramatic religious and genre scenes such as The Way to Calvary (Parma). In his late works his manner became softer and warmer under Correggio's influence. An example is The Marriage of St. Catherine (Parma). Other works are in Reggio and Modena and in the Louvre.

The Bolognese School or the School of Bologna of painting flourished in Bologna, the capital of Emilia Romagna, between the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, and rivalled Florence and Rome as the center of painting. Its most important representatives include the Carracci family, including Ludovico and his two cousins, the brothers Agostino and Annibale. Later it included other prominent Baroque painters: Domenichino and Lanfranco, active mostly in Rome as would be Guercino and Guido Reni. Accademia degli Incamminati in Bologna run by Lodovico Carracci.

List of artists

Period of Activity: 1501–1600

• Amico Aspertini (1474-1552)
• Girolamo da Treviso (1497-1544)
• Pier Maria Pennacchi (1464 - before 1516)
• Girolamo da Carpi
• Denys Calvaert
• Pietro Faccini (1552-1614)
• Prospero Fontana (1512-1597)
• Lavinia Fontana (1552-1614)
• Giovanni Francesco Bezzi (Nosadella) (1530-1571)
• Bartolomeo Passerotti (1529-1592)
• Bartolomeo Cesi (1556-1629)
• Annibale Carracci (1560-1609)
• Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619)
• Agostino Carracci (1557-1602)
• Carlo Bononi (1569- c.1632)
• Sisto Badalocchio (1581-c.1647)
• Camillo Procaccini

1601–1650

• Angelo Michele Toni
• Benedetto Gennari
• Guido Reni (1575-1642)
• Domenichino (1581-1641)
• Francesco Albani (1578-1660)
• Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino) (1591-1666)
• Lionello Spada
• Lucio Massari
• Francesco Brizio
• Giacomo Cavedone
• Bartolomeo Schedoni
• Francesco Gessi (1558-1649)
• Simone Cantarini (Il Pesarese) (1612-1648)
• Carlo Cignani (1628-1719)
• Giovanni Antonio Burrini
• Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole
• Lorenzo Pasinelli (1629-1772)
• Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665)
• Marcantonio Franceschini
• Guido Cagnacci (1601-1663)
• Giuseppe Mazza (sculptor, 1653-1741)
• Lorenzo Garbieri (1580-1654)
• Domenico Maria Canuti(1620-1660)
• Angelo Michele Colonna(1604-1687)
• Agostino Mitelli (1609-1660).
• Enrico Haffner (1640-1702)
• Giovannni Maria Bibiena
• Giovan Giacomo Monti
• Giovanni Battista Viola
• Alessandro Tiarini
• Giovanni Andrea Donducci (il Mastelletta)

1650–1700 and after

• Giuseppe Maria Crespi (1665-1747)
• Ubaldo Gandolfi

See also

• Florentine School
• Lucchese School
• School of Ferrara
• Sienese School

References

Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief (1986). The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries.