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Francesco Furini

1603 - 1646

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Francesco Furini ( 10 apr. 1603 – 19 August 1646) was an Italian Baroque painter, poet and priest. He was a leading painter in Florence in the second quarter of the 17th century and also worked in Rome. He was noted for both secular and religious subjects in which he used a sensual sfumato style, particularly in the many female nudes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Francesco Furini is the 1,063rd most popular painter (down from 1,009th in 2019), the 2,586th most popular biography from Italy (down from 2,459th in 2019) and the 213th most popular Italian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Francesco Furini ranks 1,063 out of 2,023Before him are George Frederic Watts, Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Joris Hoefnagel, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Benedetto Luti, and Anthon van Rappard. After him are Laurits Tuxen, Adriaen van Utrecht, On Kawara, Juan Carreño de Miranda, Peder Mørk Mønsted, and Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1603, Francesco Furini ranks 11Before him are Lennart Torstensson, Fasilides, Adam Olearius, Friedrich Wilhelm II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Aert van der Neer, and Yerofey Khabarov. After him are Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark, Gysbert Japiks, Marco Uccellini, Johannes Cocceius, Michel Le Tellier, and Cornelis Bloemaert. Among people deceased in 1646, Francesco Furini ranks 10Before him are Stanisław Koniecpolski, Henri, Prince of Condé, Hosokawa Tadaoki, Zhu Yousong, Zhu Yujian, and Maria Caterina Farnese. After him are Margherita Aldobrandini, Antonio Marcello Barberini, Francesco Erizzo, Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, William Dobson, and Elias Holl.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Francesco Furini ranks 2,586 out of 5,161Before him are Domenico Gabrielli (1659), Pietro Ziani (1153), Silvio Gazzaniga (1921), Adalbert I of Ivrea (880), Benedetto Luti (1666), and Virgilio Noè (1922). After him are Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum (-206), John Leonardi (1541), Letizia Battaglia (1935), Moretto da Brescia (1498), Franchinus Gaffurius (1451), and Simone Peterzano (1540).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Francesco Furini ranks 213Before him are Taddeo Zuccari (1529), Mario Merz (1925), Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze (1343), Carlo Saraceni (1579), Bonaventura Berlinghieri (1210), and Benedetto Luti (1666). After him are Moretto da Brescia (1498), Simone Peterzano (1540), Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716), Francesco Zuccarelli (1702), Lorenzo Lippi (1606), and Giovanni Fattori (1825).