Calvaert, Denys (Dionisio Fiammingo) (1540-1619) Flemish-born painter Calvaert emigrated from his native Antwerp as a young man and around 1560 he was studying in Bologna under Prospero Fontana. After a short spell in Rome in the early 1570s, working on the Vatican, Calvaert returned to spend the rest of his life in Bologna, where he […]
Capuchins A branch of the Franciscans founded in the 1520s by Matteo di Bassi of Urbino, who wished to return to the original austerity of the Franciscan rule. The habit, based on St. Francis’s own garb, includes the pointed cowl (capuche) that gives the order its name. Despite initial disapproval from other Franciscans, the Capuchin […]