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Francesco Maffei BIOGRAPHY
1605 Vicenza, Italy - 1660 Padua, Italy. Known for: Venetian scenes, alterpieces, Biblical subjects, allegorical paintings, drawings.
Relatively little is known of the life of Francesco Maffei, who received his artistic training in his native city of Vicenza. He was a pupil of Alessandro Maganza, whose work is often confused with... Read full biography
Relatively little is known of the life of Francesco Maffei, who received his artistic training in his native city of Vicenza. He was a pupil of Alessandro Maganza, whose work is often confused with his. To the early Mannerist influence of Maganza and such 16th century Venetian artists as Paolo... Read full biography
Relatively little is known of the life of Francesco Maffei, who received his artistic training in his native city of Vicenza. He was a pupil of Alessandro Maganza, whose work is often confused with his. To the early Mannerist influence of Maganza and such 16th century Venetian artists as Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Tintoretto was added, following a trip to Venice around 1638, that of such Baroque masters as Johann Liss, Bernardo Strozzi and Domenico Fetti. Maffei worked mainly on the mainland,... Read full biography
Relatively little is known of the life of Francesco Maffei, who received his artistic training in his native city of Vicenza. He was a pupil of Alessandro Maganza, whose work is often confused with his. To the early Mannerist influence of Maganza and such 16th century Venetian artists as Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Tintoretto was added, following a trip to Venice around 1638, that of such Baroque masters as Johann Liss, Bernardo Strozzi and Domenico Fetti. Maffei worked mainly on the mainland, however; in Vicenza, Rovigo, Brescia and Padua, where he spent his final years. He produced a large number of altarpieces and paintings of Biblical subjects, as well as allegorical compositions, and by the 1640’s had developed into what one modern... Read full biography
Relatively little is known of the life of Francesco Maffei, who received his artistic training in his native city of Vicenza. He was a pupil of Alessandro Maganza, whose work is often confused with his. To the early Mannerist influence of Maganza and such 16th century Venetian artists as Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Tintoretto was added, following a trip to Venice around 1638, that of such Baroque masters as Johann Liss, Bernardo Strozzi and Domenico Fetti. Maffei worked mainly on the mainland, however; in Vicenza, Rovigo, Brescia and Padua, where he spent his final years. He produced a large number of altarpieces and paintings of Biblical subjects, as well as allegorical compositions, and by the 1640’s had developed into what one modern scholar has called ‘possibly the most brilliant individual to mark seventeenth-century Venetian painting’.... Read full biography
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Relatively little is known of the life of Francesco Maffei, who received his artistic training in his native city of Vicenza. He was a pupil of Alessandro Maganza, whose work is often confused with his. To the early Mannerist influence of Maganza and such 16th century Venetian artists as Paolo Veronese and Jacopo Tintoretto was added, following a trip to Venice around 1638, that of such Baroque masters as Johann Liss, Bernardo Strozzi and Domenico Fetti.Maffei worked mainly on the mainland, however; in Vicenza, Rovigo, Brescia and Padua, where he spent his final years. He produced a large number of altarpieces and paintings of Biblical subjects, as well as allegorical compositions, and by the 1640’s had d...But wait, there's more...
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