Federico Faruffini
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| - | '''Federico Faruffini''' (Sesto San Giovanni, [[1831]] – Perugia, [[1869]]) was an Italian painter. | + | '''Federico Faruffini''' ([[Sesto San Giovanni]], 1831- [[Perugia]], 1869) was an [[Italy|Italian]] painter and engraver of historical subjects, in a style that combines the styles and themes of [[Realism (arts)|Realism]] with the diffuse outlines and lively colors of [[Scapigliatura]] painters. He is known for such paintings as ''[[Sacrifice of the Virgin to the Nile]]''. |
| - | La sua opera è considerata come un momento di passaggio tra il pittoricismo di [[Giuseppe Carnovali]] e i modi degli [[Scapigliatura|Scapigliati]] [[Lombardia|lombardi]]. | + | ==Biography== |
| + | Born in [[Sesto San Giovanni|Sesto]], a commune now inside the metropolitan area of [[Milan]], he initially trained with Trecourt in [[Pavia]]. He befriended [[Tranquillo Cremona]] and accompanied him to Milan and [[Venice]]. He traveled with [[Giovanni Carnovali]]. In the 1864 exposition at the Brera, he submitted a watercolor, ''Coro della Certosa di Pavia'' and four oil canvases, ''Scholars of [[Andreas Alciato|Alciato]]'', an ''Annunciation'', ''Cordello e Cunizza'', and his ''Macchiavelli and Borgia,'' which he both painted and engraved, and for which he obtained a medal in 1866. His ''Sacrifice at the Nile'' was painted for the 1865 exhibition. In 1867, at the Salon exhibition in Paris, he was awarded a first prize medal for a paintings of ''Borgia'' and one of ''The death of Ernesto Cairoli''. | ||
| - | ==Biografia== | + | Lack of recognition and financial difficulties is said to have led him to commit suicide at age 38. |
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| - | Formatosi a [[Pavia]] col [[Trécourt]]; amico di [[Tranquillo Cremona]], fu influenzato maggiormente dalla pittura cromaticamente ricca del Carnovali, dedicandosi a soggetti storici, religiosi o tratti dai romanzi. Recatosi a [[Roma]] nel [[1856]] vi rimase fino all'inizio del [[1858]], impiegato nella prima commissione ufficiale: la pala con l<nowiki>'</nowiki>''Immacolata Concezione'' per il Duomo di [[Pavia]], dove emergono influenze [[purismo|puriste]]. | + | |
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| - | Le opere realizzate tra il [[1859]] e il [[1861]], come ''L'orazione di san Domenico'', per la Certosa di Pavia; ''La gondola di Tiziano'' ([[1861]], [[Milano]], [[Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano|Galleria d'Arte Moderna]]), rivelano una nuova ricchezza cromatica e un'originale impostazione compositiva, probabilmente frutto del contatto con [[Domenico Morelli]], tra il [[1859]]-[[1860|60]] circa compì un breve soggiorno veneziano dove studiò i maestri del Rinascimento veneto. Stabilitosi nel 1861 a Milano, fu a [[Torino]] con Tranquillo Cremona nel 1864, esponendovi ''Sordello e Cunizza'' (Milano, [[Pinacoteca di Brera]]), dello stesso anno è anche la ''la Lettrice '' o ''Clara'', (Milano, Galleria d'Arte Moderna). Del [[1865]] è ''Il sacrificio della Vergine al Nilo'', ([[Roma]], [[Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna di Roma|Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna]]). | + | |
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| - | Premiato nel [[1867]] all'esposizione universale di Parigi per il ''Cesare Borgia che ascolta Machiavelli''(recentemente acquistato dal Comune di Pavia ed esposto nel Castello Visconteo della stessa città), nello stesso anno tornò a Roma e nel 1869 fu a Perugia dove morí suicida. | + | |
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| + | *[[Sacrifice of the Virgin to the Nile]]. | ||
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Federico Faruffini (Sesto San Giovanni, 1831- Perugia, 1869) was an Italian painter and engraver of historical subjects, in a style that combines the styles and themes of Realism with the diffuse outlines and lively colors of Scapigliatura painters. He is known for such paintings as Sacrifice of the Virgin to the Nile.
Biography
Born in Sesto, a commune now inside the metropolitan area of Milan, he initially trained with Trecourt in Pavia. He befriended Tranquillo Cremona and accompanied him to Milan and Venice. He traveled with Giovanni Carnovali. In the 1864 exposition at the Brera, he submitted a watercolor, Coro della Certosa di Pavia and four oil canvases, Scholars of Alciato, an Annunciation, Cordello e Cunizza, and his Macchiavelli and Borgia, which he both painted and engraved, and for which he obtained a medal in 1866. His Sacrifice at the Nile was painted for the 1865 exhibition. In 1867, at the Salon exhibition in Paris, he was awarded a first prize medal for a paintings of Borgia and one of The death of Ernesto Cairoli.
Lack of recognition and financial difficulties is said to have led him to commit suicide at age 38.
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