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Cavedone, Giacomo
(b Sassuolo, 1577; d Bologna, 1660). Italian painter and draughtsman. He is best known for his monumental altarpieces but he also executed numerous frescoes and narrative easel paintings. Except for his late Self-portrait (early 1630s; Florence, Uffizi), all of the 92 extant paintings and frescoes are religious. In 1591 his father Pellegrino, a minor decorative painter from Sassuolo, obtained from the local authorities a three-year stipend that enabled Giacomo to study painting in Bologna with Bernardino Baldi and Annibale Carracci. In 1595 Annibale moved to Rome, but Cavedone remained in Bologna and by the late 1590s had become one of Ludovico Carracci’s principal assistants, participating in such projects as the decoration of the cloister of S Michele in Bosco outside Bologna, where he frescoed the Death of St Benedict (1604–5). Cavedone inherited the title of Caposindaco of the Accademia degli Incamminati from Ludovico Carracci on the latter’s death in 1619.
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