Giuseppe Vermiglio (c.1585 – c.1635) was aCaravaggist painter from NorthernItaly, active also inRome.
Our knowledge of Vermiglio's life is sketchy. It is probable that he was born inAlessandria.[1] He spent the first two decades of the seventeenth century inRome where, while training and working as an artist, he adopted a bohemian lifestyle with a tendency to become involved in brawls with fellow painters; for example, in 1604 he supported his masterAdriano di Monteleone's account of a dispute with two unknown artists which had led to Monteleone being wounded by his own wife. The following year Vermiglio was arrested and imprisoned after being discovered at the Monte di Brianza hostel bearing an unlicensed sword. In 1611, proceedings were brought against him for physically attacking the painterSilvio Oliviero. In 1618, still in Rome, he is recorded as a picture dealer.
Around 1620 he returned to northern Italy where he pursued his career as a painter inPiedmont (Novara and Alessandria) and inLombardy (notably inMantua andMilan).
His art was profoundly influenced byCaravaggio. Other painters to whom his work, on the basis of stylistic references, is thought to be indebted include theBologneseAnnibale Carracci andGuido Reni; it has been suggested that Vermiglio worked or studied in Bologna at some point. Luigi Lanzi acclaimed the painting ofDaniel among the Lions, in the library of the Passione in Milan, as his masterwork.[2]
Judgments of quality of his work have ranged fromAlfred Moir's 'inconsequential craftsman'[3] to Lanzi's 'the best painter in oils of which the ancient state of Piedmont could boast, and one of the best Italian artists of his times'.[4]
Paintings by Vermiglio, or which have been attributed to him, include:
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