Francesco Lauri (1610–1635) was an Italian painter of the

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period, active mainly in

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, but also throughout other parts of eastern and northern

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and some of

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and

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Biography

He was the oldest son of the

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painter Balthasar Lauwers (Baltassare Lauri). His father was a

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and pupil of

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who had emigrated from

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and then settled in

. Francesco's younger brother

Filippo Lauri Filippo Lauri (25 August 1623 - 12 December 1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. ''Miracle of St. Vincent Ferrer'' Biography Born and active in Rome, his story was featured in biographies by Baldinucci. He first studied with h ...

was also a painter and a pupil of

Angelo Caroselli Angelo Caroselli or Carosèlli (11 February 1585 – 8 April 1652) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his native Rome. He created religious works, allegories, portraits as well as genre art, genre scenes in the vein of ...

. Francesco was a disciple of his father and of

Andrea Sacchi Andrea Sacchi (30 November 159921 June 1661) was an Italian painter of High Baroque Classicism, active in Rome. A generation of artists who shared his style of art include the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptor ...

. He is said by Baldinucci to have painted one of the ovals in the ceiling of the Palazzo de' Crescenzi, and often painted figures for

Claude Lorraine Claude Lorrain (; born Claude Gellée , called ''le Lorrain'' in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era. He spent most of his life in I ...

Sources

*See

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 ...

Googlebooks entry
* 1610 births 1635 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Rome Artists from the Papal States {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub