Romolo Panfi

Romolo Panfi (Florence, 1632 - Carmignano, 1690) was an Italian painter, active in Tuscany.[1] He was active mainly as a battle painter and landscapes.[2]

Biography

He was a pupil of Jacopo Vignali and worked in the Medici court of Grand Duke Ferdinand and his brother, Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, where Panfi was said to be talented as a musician and dancer.[3] One of his pupils was Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani[4]

References

  1. ↑ 17th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, edited by Jacob Bean, page 227.
  2. ↑ Biografia degli artisti (compilatore, F. de Boni). By Filippo de' Boni, 1840, page 743
  3. ↑ Abecedario pittorico; by Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, Pietro Guarienti, page 448.
  4. ↑ Abecedario pittorico, page 284.