Francesco Stringa (1635–1709) was an Italian painter of the

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

era, active mainly near his native city of

Modena Modena (, ; ; ; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena, in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It has 184,739 inhabitants as of 2025. A town, and seat of an archbis ...

. He is said to have been a follower of the style, if not the pupil of Ludovico Lana and

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as (il) Guercino (), was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vigorous n ...

. He served as the superintendent of the Galleria Estense in Modena. Some sources claim he was influenced by the naturalism of

Mattia Preti Mattia Preti (24 February 1613 – 3 January 1699) was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Saint John. Life Born in the small town of Taverna in Calabria, Preti was called ''Il Ca ...

. The ''Allegorical Still Life with Bernini's Bust of Duke

Francesco I d'Este Francesco I d'Este (6 September 1610 – 14 October 1658) was Duke of Modena and Reggio from 1629 until his death. The eldest son of Alfonso III d'Este, he became reigning duke after his father's abdication. Biography Born on 6 September 1610, ...

'' at the Minneapolis Institute of art is attributed to Stringa. Francesco Vellani, Antonio Consetti

Girolamo Donnini Girolamo Donnini (18 April 1681 – 1743) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born in the town of Correggio, Emilia-Romagna. He was a pupil of the painters Francesco Stringa in Modena, and then of Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna, ...

and Jacopo ZoboliThe Picture Collector's Manual: Dictionary of names
by James R. Hobbes (1849): page 505. were said to have been his pupils.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stringa, Francesco 1635 births 1709 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Italian Mannerist painters Painters from Modena Italian court painters