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Francesco Furini (1603–1646), born and deceased in Florence, belongs to the city's seventeenth-century painting tradition. After training with artists including Passignano and Giovanni Biliverti, he entered Bartolomeo Manfredi's workshop in Rome in 1619. His career developed principally in Florence, where he worked for aristocratic families and the Medici. He produced mainly paintings for private collections, while also undertaking fresco commissions.
Mythological and biblical subjects provided settings for his sustained attention to the human body, modelled through soft transitions that blur its contours. Studies from both female and male models informed this practice. In Hylas and the Nymphs, held in the Palatine Gallery at the Pitti Palace, intertwined figures and nocturnal lighting lend sensual and dramatic tension to the ancient story.
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Oil on canvas
D’après Francesco Furini — Artémis
huile sur toile
D'après
Catalogue period : 2026-04-29
After
Published result : 3300 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 3000–5000
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Oil on canvas
Attribué à Furini, Francesco — zugeschrieben Büssende Maria Magdalena
Öl auf Leinwand
zugeschrieben
Catalogue period : 2023-09-22
Attributed
Published result : 6000 CHF
Fees not specified in the available data
Estimate : CHF 12000–18000
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