Francesco Lauri (1610–1635) 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, but also throughout other parts of eastern and northern
Italy and some of
France,
Spain and
Greece.
Biography
He was the oldest son of the
Flemish painter
Balthasar Lauwers
Balthasar Lauwers, known in Italy as Baldassare Lauri or Baldassare Lauro (Antwerp, baptized on 18 April 1578 - Rome, 4 August 1645) was a Flemish landscape painter who, after initially training in Antwerp, had a successful career in Italy where he ...
(Baltassare Lauri). His father was a
landscape painter and pupil of
Paul Bril who had emigrated from
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, to
Milan and then settled in
Rome. Francesco's younger brother
Fillipo Lauri
Filippo Lauri (25 August 1623 - 12 December 1694) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.
''Miracle of St Vincent Ferrer''
Born and active in Rome, his story was featured in the biographies by Baldinucci. He first ...
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 scenes in the vein of the Carava ...
. Francesco was a disciple of his father and of
Andrea Sacchi. 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.
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
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