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Tommaso Redi (22 December 1665 – 10 October 1726) was an
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painter, active during the late-
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in his native
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. He initially apprenticed with the Florentine painter
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(1652–1726), and then moved to
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to work in the Medici Academy in that city, which employed Carlo Maratti and
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as teachers. He returned to Florence to paint in the
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and also was a respected portrait painter. When the Czar Peter visited Florence, he was particularly struck with the works of Redi, and being desirous of establishing an academy for the promotion of the fine arts at Moscow, attempted to have Redi run the academy, but the latter did not accept the offer. Redi died in Florence. Among his pupils were Giovanni Domenico Campiglia (1692–1768) and Giuseppe Grisoni (1700–1769).


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1665 births 1726 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub