CAVEDONI, GIACOMO. – Painter, born in Sassuolo in 1577, died in Bologna in 1660. He skillfully blended the Carracci principles of his artistic education with the influences he encountered in Venice in 1603; in this he was aided by a vivid sense of color, which at times enabled him to achieve admirable chromatic effects.
His finest works are, in fact, those in which Venetian characteristics predominate, such as the S. Paolo, the Natività, the Adorazione dei Magi (1612–13), the Vergine e s. Alò (1621–1622), and the Miracolo della Cena, considered his masterpiece, all preserved in Bologna. In Modena, the Gallery contains a youthful Carracci-style work, the S. Stefano, while in S. Pietro there is the Battesimo di Cristo.
BIBL.: B. Brizio, s. V. in Thieme-Becker, VI, p. 233; G. Zucchini, Un affresco ignorato del C., in L'Archigismatio, 9 (1916), p. 257. Maria Donati