Cavedone, Giacomo (or Jacopo)

an eminent Italian painter, of the Bolognese school, was born at Sassuolo, near Modena, in 1577, and was instructed by the Cariacci. He afterwards went to Venice and studied the works of Titian. His most celebrated picture is in the Church of the Mendicanti at Bologna, representing St. Alo and St. Petronio Kneeling before the Virgin and Child, with a glory of angels. In San Paolo are his fine pictures of The Nativity and The Adoration of the Magi. In the Ospitale di San Francesco is his Holy Family, with St. John and St. Francis. In San Michele is The Last Supper, and in San Salvatore, The Four Doctors of the Church Cavedone died, miserably poor, in 1660. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Générale, s.v.