Daniele Crespi was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 era. He was born in Busto Arsizio

Busto Arsizio

Busto Arsizio is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy, in northern Italy, 25 km north of Milan in the province of Varese.The economy of Busto Arsizio is mainly based on industry and commerce.-History:...

, and active mostly in the Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

 of Federico Borromeo

Federico Borromeo

Federico Borromeo was an Italian ecclesiastic, cardinal and archbishop of Milan.-Biography:Federico Borromeo was born in Milan as the second son of Giulio Cesare Borromeo, Count of Arona, and Margherita Trivulzio...

.

A student of Giovanni Battista Crespi

Giovanni Battista Crespi

Giovanni Battista Crespi , called Il Cerano, was an Italian painter, sculptor, and architect,-Biography:...

 and Giulio Cesare Procaccini

Giulio Cesare Procaccini

Giulio Cesare Procaccini was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early Baroque era in Milan.-Biography:Born in Bologna he was son of the Mannerist painter Ercole Procaccini the Elder and brother of Camillo Procaccini and Carlo Antonio Procaccini...

, he was an excellent colorist, known for the simplistic beauty of his composition. His earliest works show him assisting Guglielmo Caccia

Guglielmo Caccia

Guglielmo Caccia called il Moncalvo was an Italian painter who specialised in altar-pieces.He was born in Montabone near Acqui. He said to have been a pupil of Lorenzo Sabbatini. He started painting in Milan, then worked in Pavia, where he was made a citizen...

 in San Vittore. His best works include a series of pictures from the life of Saint Bruno

Bruno

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 (now in the Certosa di Garegnano in Milan) and a depiction of the Stoning of St. Stephen (in Brera

Brera

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). Another masterpiece is the dark 1628 San Carlo Borromeo at Supper in the church of Santa Maria della Passione in Milan. Other works by him can be found in Milan and Pavia

Pavia

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. His Conversion of Saint Paul, when compared to Caravaggio's earlier work

Conversion on the Way to Damascus

The Conversion on the Way to Damascus is a masterpiece by Caravaggio, painted in 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in Rome. Across the chapel is a second Caravaggio painting depicting the inverted Crucifixion of St. Peter...

 in the Cerasi Chapel

Cerasi Chapel

The Cerasi Chapel is one of five chapels located within the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. It contains important paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci, two of the founders of Baroque art, all dating from 1600 or 1601.The chapel was purchased in July 1600...

, shows the persistence of Crespi's Mannerist

Mannerism

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 traits. Crespi died in Milan during the plague epidemic

Bubonic plague

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in 1630.