Francesco Ferrari (painter)

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Francesco Ferrari (1634–1708) was an Italian painter and architect of the Baroque period, active in Ferrara and across Northern Italy and Vienna.

Born near Rovigo, and moved into Ferrara. He had been instructed in figure painting by a Frenchman, and afterwards became professor of architectural and ornamental painting under the Bolognese painter Gabriel Rossi. Ferrari painted The Dispute of S. Cirillo and the Rain granted to the prayer of Elias (in the church of S. Paolo). He also painted for the Carmine and at S. Giorgio. He worked also for theaters and in different Italian cities as an architect, including in the service of Leopold I. at Vienna. Being constrained to leave Germany on account of his health, he returned to Ferrara.

Among his pupils were Mornassi, Grassaleoni, Paggi, Raffanelli, Giacomo Filippi, and one who surpassed all the rest, Antonfelice Ferrari, his son.

References

Lanzi, Luigi (1847). Thomas Roscoe (translator), ed. History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century III. London; Original from Oxford University, Digitized January, 2007: Henry G. Bohn. p. 225.

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Name	Ferrari, Francesco
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Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	1634
Place of birth
Date of death	1708
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