|
|
Francesco Albani
(March 17 or August 17, 1578 COctober 4, 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter.
Born at Bologna, his father was a silk merchant who intended to instruct his son in the same trade; but by age twelve, Albani became an apprentice under the competent mannerist painter Denis Calvaert, where he met Guido Reni. Soon he followed Reni to the so-called "Academy" run by the Carracci family: Annibale, Agostino, and Ludovico. This studio fostered the careers of many painters of the Bolognese school, including Domenichino, Massari, Viola, Lanfranco, Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Pietro Faccini, Remigio Cantagallina, and Reni.
In the year 1600, Albani moved to Rome to work in the fresco decoration of the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese, being completed by the studio of Annibale Carracci. Rome, under Clement VIII Aldobrandini (1592-1605) was exhibiting some degree of administrative stability and renewed artistic patronage. While pope Clement was born from a Florentine family residing in Urbino, his family was allied by marriage to the Emilia-Romagna and the Farnese, since Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma had married Margherita Aldobrandini. Parma, like Bologna, are part of the Region of Emilia-Romagna. Thus it was not surprise that Cardinal Odoarde Farnese, Ranuccio's brother, chose the Carraccis from Bologna for patronage, thereby establishing Bolognese predominance of Roman fresco painting for nearly two decades.
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 76658
Adonis Led by Cupids to Venus, detail
1600(1600)
Oil on canvas
cjr
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 77166
Diana and Actaeon
ca. 1617(1617)
Oil on copper
61 cm (24 in). Height: 52 cm (20.5 in).
cjr
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 77302
Holy Family
between 1630(1630) and 1635(1635)
Oil on canvas
43 cm (16.9 in). Height: 57 cm (22.4 in).
cjr
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 77945
Spring
between 1616(1616) and 1617(1617)
Medium Oil on canvas
cyf
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 77947
The Holy Family
ca. 1610(1610)
Medium Oil on copper
cyf
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Prev Artist Next Artist
|
|
Francesco Albani
(March 17 or August 17, 1578 COctober 4, 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter.
Born at Bologna, his father was a silk merchant who intended to instruct his son in the same trade; but by age twelve, Albani became an apprentice under the competent mannerist painter Denis Calvaert, where he met Guido Reni. Soon he followed Reni to the so-called "Academy" run by the Carracci family: Annibale, Agostino, and Ludovico. This studio fostered the careers of many painters of the Bolognese school, including Domenichino, Massari, Viola, Lanfranco, Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Pietro Faccini, Remigio Cantagallina, and Reni.
In the year 1600, Albani moved to Rome to work in the fresco decoration of the gallery of the Palazzo Farnese, being completed by the studio of Annibale Carracci. Rome, under Clement VIII Aldobrandini (1592-1605) was exhibiting some degree of administrative stability and renewed artistic patronage. While pope Clement was born from a Florentine family residing in Urbino, his family was allied by marriage to the Emilia-Romagna and the Farnese, since Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma had married Margherita Aldobrandini. Parma, like Bologna, are part of the Region of Emilia-Romagna. Thus it was not surprise that Cardinal Odoarde Farnese, Ranuccio's brother, chose the Carraccis from Bologna for patronage, thereby establishing Bolognese predominance of Roman fresco painting for nearly two decades.
. Related Artists to Francesco Albani: | Peter ilsted | Regis-Francois Gignoux | Willem Romeijn | Jan Thorn-Prikker | Julius Payer |
|
|
|
