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Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647)

Aliases: Giovanni di Stefano

Professions: Painter; Etcher

  • GIOVANNI LANFRANCO PARMA BAPT 1582 - 1647 ROME

  • Giovanni Lanfranco (Parma 1582-1647 Roma)

  • GIOVANNI LANFRANCO (1582-1647)

  • Giovanni Lanfranco (1582-1647)

Giovanni Lanfranco Biography

(bapt Parma, 26 Jan 1582; d Rome, 29 Nov 1647). 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 (c . 250–250/400 mm) figure studies, drawn after the live model, in black and white chalk on rough, coloured (beige, green, grey or bluish) paper.

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