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FURINI, Francesco
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1603-1646
Italian painter. He was one of the leading Florentine painters of the first half of the 17th century, famous for the ambiguous sensuality and sfumato effects of his many paintings of female nudes. He first studied with his father, Filippo Furini, nicknamed Pippo Sciamerone and described by Baldinucci as a portrait painter, and he completed his apprenticeship in the studios of Domenico Passignano and of Giovanni Bilivert. Inspired by an admiration for Classical sculpture, which he studied in the Medici collection in Florence, and for Raphael, he travelled to Rome, which he reached as early as 1619 (Gantelli, see 1972 exh. cat.). Here he came into contact with Bartolomeo Manfredi and with Giovanni da San Giovanni. In 1623 he assisted the latter on the frescoes of the Chariot of the Night in the Palazzo Bentivoglio (now Pallavicini-Rospigliosi), commissioned by Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio, and also perhaps on the lower paintings (1623-4) in the apse of the church of SS Quattro Coronati, Rome. Related Paintings of FURINI, Francesco :. | Poetry and Painting | Artemisia Prepares to Drink the Ashes of her Husband | Judith and Holofernes sdgh | The Birth of Rachel dgs | The Three Graces | Related Artists: Nathulal Gordhan1897-1936 Thomas BrowerBritish
1830-1896
MANUEL, NiklausSwiss Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1484-1530
was a Swiss dramaturg, painter, graphic artist and politician.
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