All Maffei, Francesco 's Paintings
The Painting Names Are Sorted From A to Z
Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
Choice ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
95802 Mythological Scene  Mythological Scene   circa 1650(1650) Medium oil on canvas cyf
95801 Perseus Beheading Medusa  Perseus Beheading Medusa   circa 1650(1650) Medium oil on canvas cyf
19243 Perseus Cutting off the Head of Medusa  Perseus Cutting off the Head of Medusa   1660 Oil on canvas Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice.
19241 Perseus Liberating Andromeda  Perseus Liberating Andromeda   1657-58 Oil on canvas.
95803 Perseus Liberating Andromeda  Perseus Liberating Andromeda   between 1657(1657) and 1658(1658) Medium oil on canvas cyf
19242 Sight  Sight   1657-58 Oil on canvas.
Maffei, Francesco
Italian Baroque Era Painter, 1605-1660 Italian painter. He probably trained with his father, Giacomo Maffei, before joining the workshop of the Maganza family in Vicenza. His early works, such as the Ecce homo (ex-Dianin priv. col., Padua, see Pallucchini, 1981,), were influenced by the eclectic style, between Veronese and the Bassani, of Alessandro Maganza. The St Nicholas and the Angel (1626; Vicenza, S Nicola da Tolentino), with colours like those of Veronese, yet lighter, suggests Maffei's rapid development of an independent style that is both rugged and moving. His interest in narrative, already evident in scenes from the Life of St Cajetan (Vicenza, S Stefano), was developed in the later Martyrdom of the Franciscan Minors at Nagasaki (Schio, S Francesco), which is datable to about 1630. Here, the contrast between the pale, silvery tones of the background and the darker foreground figures is derived from Tintoretto, but the exaggerated Mannerist treatment of the main figures also recalls the art of such French engravers as Jacques Bellange and Pierre Brebiette. At the same time there is also an echo of the extreme stylizations of Giovanni Demio.



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