Guido Cagnacci (January 19, 1601 – 1663) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, belonging to the Forli painting school and to the Bolognese School. Born in Santarcangelo di Romagna near Rimini, he died in Vienna in 1663. He worked in Rimini from 1627 to 1642. After that, he was in Forli, where absorbed the lesson of the Melozzo’s painting. His life was at times tempestuous, as characterised by his failed elopement (1628) with an aristocratic widow. Some contemporaries remark him as eccentric, unreliable and of doubtful morality. He is said to have enjoyed the company of cross-dressing models. Cagnacci's work was, in one view, "entirely unappreciated by his contemporaries," but re-assessed by modern critics; his painting is "warm with the heightened tones of grazing light, rich in the play of shadows and colours.”
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