Filippo Lauri (25 August 1623 - 12 December 1694) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, active mainly in Rome. ''Miracle of St Vincent Ferrer'' Born and active in Rome, his story was featured in the biographies by

Baldinucci Baldinucci is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anthony Baldinucci (1665–1717), an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary *Filippo Baldinucci (1625–1696), an Italian art historian and biographer * Pietro Paolo Baldinucci, Ital ...

. He first studied with his father,

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(Italianized as Lauri), who was a Flemish landscape painter; and then studied with his elder brother,

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. Afterwards, he worked under his brother-in-law, Angelo Caroselli. Filippo's brother had been a pupil of Andrea Sacchi. In 1654 Lauri became a member of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and later became the ''Principe'' or director of the academy. He painted along with Filippo Gagliardi a canvas depiction of ''Celebrations for Christine of Sweden at Palazzo Barberini'' (now at Palazzo Braschi), which demonstrates the exuberant pageantry common in their time. Filippo's father had emigrated from

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, and was a pupil of Paul Bril. Filippo's oldest brother

was also a painter and a pupil of Andrea Sacchi, who died young. Fillipo often painted small figures for the landscapes of Claude Lorraine. He was prolific. He employed many engravers.

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Artists in biographies by Filippo Baldinucci Filippo Baldinucci's ''Notizie de' Professori del Disegno, Da Cimabue in qua, Secolo V. dal 1610. al 1670. Distinto in Decennali'' (or ''Notice of the Professors of Design, from Cimabue to now, from 1610–1670'') was a major art biography of Baroq ...

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1623 births 1694 deaths Painters from Rome 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub