Filippo Lauri

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Filippo Lauri (Rome, 25 August 1623 - 12 December 1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.

Born and active in Rome, his story was featured in the biographies by Baldinucci. He first studied with his father, Balthasar Lauwers (a Flemish landscape painter (Italianized as Lauri), and then with his elder brother, Francesco Lauri, and then with his brother-in-law, Angelo Caroselli. Filippo’s brother had been a pupil of Andrea Sacchi. In 1654 Lauri became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and later became the Principe or director of the academy. He painted along with Filippo Gagliardi a canvas depiction of Celebrations for Christine of Sweden at Palazzo Barberini (now at Palazzo Braschi, which demonstrates the exubertant pagentry common in their time.

He was the youngest son of a Flemish painter of landscapes and pupil of Paul Bril, Bathazar Lauwers (Baltassare Lauri), who emigrated from Antwerp to Milan, then Rome. Francesco's oldest brother Francesco Lauri was also a painter and a pupil of Andrea Sacchi, who died young. Fillipo started his training with his brother, and then became a pupil of Angelo Caroselli. He often painted figures for Claude Lorraine. He was prolific. He employed many engravers.

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• See Artists in biographies by Filippo Baldinucci
• Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 25-26. 
• Grove Encyclopedia entry.
• Gallery of Art biography.