ABSTRACT
The relationships remained excellent, and while Camillo remained in control of the workshop, Carlo Antonio continued to contribute to the family activities. What did change, however, was the prestige that the evolution of Giulio Cesare’s pictorial career added to the family business. Propelled by Giulio Cesare’s fame, awareness of the Procaccini name eventually crossed the Lombard and Emilian borders, reaching a larger geographic area exemplified by the patronage of Giovanni Carlo Doria in Genoa, as well as by the interest of those patrons eager to integrate their collections with the latest developments of Lombard art. Responding to the growing requests from the private market, from 1610 onwards the Procaccinis organised their workshop as a factory of images with a precisely recognizable style, concentrating on reproducing holy families, episodes from the life of Christ and devotional landscapes. Giulio Cesare’s holy families are characterised by exalted glances, complex poses and emotional intensity.
