This morning's Artle stumped me. I was guessing various Italian Baroque artists and my fourth guess was Annibale Carracci. That was not correct but the linked biography noted that the right artist was the son of Ercole Procaccini the Elder who studied with Annibale Carracci.
Giulio Cesare Procaccini (1574-1625) was born in Bologna and moved in his teens to Milan with his family, where his father ran an art academy. He began as a sculptor but shifted to painting after working in Modena and Genoa where he was influenced by, respectively, Correggio and Rubens. A bunch of places that I have enjoyed visiting.
The Getty calls G.C. Procaccini "Bolognese" and the National Gallery of Art calls him "Lombard" in their pages on the web. Authority work (and art history) can be subjective. He only lived in Bologna as a child. The medieval Lombard League and its allies covered these cities but Milan is the only city among them that is in modern Lombardy.
The brief essays from the Getty and National Gallery mentioned that his beginnings as a sculptor are "betrayed" in the sculptural quality of his paintings. My grad school chum, Sara Jane Pearman, was also intrigued by the connection between sculpture and painting, but in Netherlandish painting.
Oh, the painting. It is The Ecstasy of the Magdalen by Giulio Cesare Procaccini, painted 1616/1620, and now in the collection of the National Gallery. https://www.nga.gov/artworks/121887-ecstasy-magdalen
And perhaps the most fun is just saying "Procaccini."
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