Bernardo Cavallino: Naples’ Baroque Visionary Bernardo Cavallino remains one of the most enigmatic and captivating figures in the history of Italian Baroque art. Born in Naples on August 25, 1616, he emerged from a city brimming with artistic fervor under the Habsburg reign, yet his life remains shrouded in much of the same mystery that surrounds his canvases. While biographical details are frustratingly sparse—leaving scholars to reconstruct his journey through circumstantial evidence and stylistic analysis—his surviving works speak with an undeniable brilliance. Cavallino possessed a singu…