Francesco Furini
Francesco Furini (* around 1600 (or 1603); † August 19, 1646) was an Italian baroque painter from Florence .
Life
Furini first learned from Matteo Rosselli , who also trained Lorenzo Lippi and Baldassare Franceschini (1611–1689). However, he is also said to have been influenced by Domenico Passignano and Giovanni Biliverti (Cantelli 1972). He was friends with Giovanni da San Giovanni .
In 1619 Furini traveled to Rome and there took suggestions from Caravaggio and his students. Among Furini's students were Simone Pignoni (1611–98) and Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi . At 40 he became a priest for the parish of Sant'Ansano in Mugello .
Furini's work confronted Florentine Mannerism with the then new Baroque style. He designed biblical and mythological themes, often using the sfumato technique developed by Leonardo da Vinci , through which landscapes are wrapped in a misty haze and softened in oil painting. In the 1630s, when he became a priest, his style developed parallel to that of Guido Reni .
Sydney J. Freedberg describes Furini's style as filled with "morbid sensuality". His frequent depiction of undressed women contrasts with his excessive religious sentimentality. His smooth stylization and the poses of the portrayed also contradict the aim of expressing highly emotional states.
One of his masterpieces, though not representative of the other style of his pictures, is the fresco he executed in the Palazzo Pitti , where Furini, commissioned by Ferdinando II. De 'Medici , between 1639 and 1642 two large lunettes with a representation of the Villa Medici in Careggi and the Allegory of Death by Lorenzo il Magnifico . The frescoes can be understood as a reaction to works by Pietro da Cortona that could be seen while working in the palazzo during those years (Cantelli 1972).
In Robert Browning's cycle of poems, Conversations with important people in their time (“Parleyings with certain people of importance in their day”), the poet formulates a declaration by Furini, which is intended to refute Filippo Baldinucci's claim that the painter ordered on his deathbed, that all of his nudes should be destroyed. For Browning, Furini's exposure of his models is a symbol of a courageous search for the hidden truth. Modern research has shown that Furini did not abandon his sensual themes upon entering the priesthood.
Furini was rediscovered by Arturo Stanghellini in the early 20th century . His poorly documented career was sketched out by Elena Toesca in 1950 and initiated an exhibition of his drawings in the Uffizi in 1972.
Catalog raisonné
- Cephalus and Aurora (before 1626, Museo de Arte, Ponce)
- Hylas and the Nymphs (shortly before 1633, Galleria Furini, Florence)
- Faith (1638, Pitti Palace)
- St John the Evangelist (1630s, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon)
- The Birth of Rachel ( Alte Pinakothek , Munich)
- Judith and Holofernes (1636, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica , Rome)
- Lot and his Daughters ( Museo del Prado , Madrid)
- Bound Andromeda ( Hermitage , St. Petersburg)
- Bound Andromeda (National Galleries, Budapest, Hungary)
- Crucifixion with angels, Saint Bartholemew, Saint John, and Mary Magdalen (San Bartolomeo, Todiano, district of Preci )
- Penitent Magdalen
- Frescoes, Salone, Palazzo Pitti (documented 1639–42, Museo degli Argenti)
- The Three Graces (Hermitage, St. Petersburg)
- Saint Sebastian ( Schleissheim Palace )
- Penitent Maria Magdalena ( Vienna )
literature
- Ludwig von Bürkel : Francesco Furini . Vienna and Leipzig 1908.
- Giuseppe Cantelli: Disegni di Francesco Furini: e del suo ambiente . Olschki, Florence 1972. OCLC 2045642
- Sydney J. Freedberg: Pelican History of Art (Ed.): Painting in Italy, 1500–1600 1993, pp. 344–345 Penguin Books Ltd.
- Web Gallery of Art entry.
- Rudolf Wittkower : Pelican History of Art, Art and Architecture Italy, 1600–1750 , 1980, Penguin Books Ltd, 1993, p. 345.
- Mina Gregori and Rodolfo Maffeis (eds.): Un'altra bellezza. Francesco Furini. Mandragora, Florence 2007.
- Giuseppe Cantelli: Francesco Furini ei Furiniani. Bandecchi & Vivaldi, Pontedera 2010.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Wittkower : Pelican History of Art, Art and Architecture Italy, 1600–1750 , 1980, Penguin Books Ltd, 1993, p. 345.
- ^ Arturo Stanghellini: Francesco Furini, Vita d'Arte, 1913
- ↑ The catalog for the exhibition by Giuseppe Cantelli, Disegni di Francesco e del suo Furini ambiente , Florence (Oschki) 1972, shows seventy-two drawings ascribed to Furini in the Uffizi. Documents by Gino Corti, published in Antichità Viva (March - April 1971) appeared too late to be included in the exhibition. Soon afterwards A. Barsanti researched further biographical details in “Una vita del inedita Furini”, Paragone 289, (1974), pp. 67-86.
- ^ Often wrongly assigned to Jacopo Vignali, referring back to Furini by Cantelli 1972 (cat. No. 2).
- ↑ Bound Andromeda on Free.fr
- ↑ Crucifixion with angels ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Umbrarte.com
- ↑ Penitent Magdalen ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Staatsgalerie.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Furini, Francesco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian baroque painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1600 or 1603 |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1646 |