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Allegory of Peace

1640 · Private collection

mythological

A cultivated artist, enamoured of theatre and literature, Francesco Furini was the inventor in Florence of a fluid, blurry style, and its principal practitioner, creating a true school of painting that endured to the end of the century in Florence.

Allegory of Peace

About the Artist

Francesco Furini

1603 – 1646

Florentine painter of biblical and mythological subjects heavy with female nudes, and of single half-length nudes in oppressive bluish tones with strong sfumato. In the 1630s he became a priest and devoted himself to religious works in the manner of Guido Reni.

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