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LANFRANCO, Giovanni

LANFRANCO, Giovanni St Ursula and the Virgins oil painting on canvas
St Ursula and the Virgins
Painting ID::  7807
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LANFRANCO, Giovanni St Ursula and the Virgins oil painting on canvas



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  LANFRANCO, Giovanni
  Italian painter (b. 1582, Parma, d. 1647, Roma). Italian painter and draughtsman. A major figure in the development of the Roman Baroque in the 1620s, he painted many altarpieces and some cabinet pictures, but was notable above all for a number of dome frescoes that are indebted to the works of Correggio; most celebrated is the Assumption of the Virgin (1625-7) in the dome of S Andrea della Valle, Rome. He also influenced the development of art in Naples, where, between 1634 and 1646, he executed a series of vast fresco commissions that look forward to the art of Luca Giordano and Francesco Solimena. A vast number of Lanfranco's preparatory drawings survive, the majority of which are now in the Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples. Broadly speaking they are of two types: small (up to 200*250 mm) compositional sketches, either in brown pen, with or without brown wash, on white or beige fine paper, or in red chalk, sometimes with red wash, or, more rarely, in black chalk or a combination of both red and black; and slightly larger
  St Ursula and the Virgins
  1622 Oil on canvas, 209 x 138 Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

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