Oil on table. Framed measurements: 160 x 130 cm, canvas measurements: 124 x 94 cm. (Viterbo, c. 1588-Rome, 1625). Italian painter. He arrived in Rome when he was still a child. It is assumed that in a first stage he trained in the workshop of the painter Pomarancio, to later become a protégé of the noble family of the Crescenzi. In 1617 he arrived in Spain, accompanying Giovanni Battista Crescenzi, who would become the true definer of artistic taste at the Madrid court. After a Spanish stay of almost two years, the painter returned to Rome in 1619. Within the Roman pictorial environment, he concentrated on learning Caravaggian forms, so in vogue during his training. Only one work by Cavarozzi is kept in the Prado Museum: La Sagrada Familia and Santa Catalina, which has been dated between 1617 and 1619, within the painter's Spanish period. Several copies of this composition are preserved, which must have been repeated a lot. The first specific reference to it can be found in the Isabel de Farnesio collection, in which it was listed in 1746 as the work of Guido Reni. It was Longhi who first attributed the work to Cavarozzi, and it has remained so. Reference bibliography: Pérez Sánchez, Alfonso E., Borgianni, Cavarozzi and Nardi in Spain, Madrid, Diego Velázquez Institute, csic, 1964, p. 22. Provenance: important private Spanish collection
