Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari - Artist Info

About Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari

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Andrea Ferrari
  • Biography

    Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari first trained with Bernardo Castello (circa 1610-12) and then with Bernardo Strozzi (circa 1613-19). It was during the 1640s that the artist began to express himself in the style of his first maturity and attained a personal language that married a taste for colour, derived from Strozzi and Rubens, with the latest development of layered painting derived from Jan Roos and Van Dyck. Following in the traditions of the mid seventeenth-century Genoese school of painting his work followed the tenets of naturalism. Giovanni Andrea De Ferrari lived from 1598 to 1669....

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