Francesco Stringa

Allegorical Still Life with Bernini's Bust of Francis I d'Este

Francesco Stringa (1635–1709)[1] was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, active mainly near his native city of Modena.

He is said to have been a follower of the style, if not the pupil of Ludovico Lana and Guercino. He served as the superintendent of the Galleria Estense in Modena. Some sources claim he was influenced by the naturalism of Mattia Preti.[2] The Allegorical Still Life with Bernini's Bust of Duke Francesco I d'Este at the Minneapolis Institute of art is attributed to Stringa.[3] Francesco Vellani, Antonio Consetti[4][5] Girolamo Donnini[6] and Jacopo Zoboli[7] were said to have been his pupils.

References

  1. ^ Metropolitan Museum of Art collections, drawing depicting Madonna and Child with Saint John, Saint Anne, and Two Angels in Adoration
  2. ^ AskArt, short biography.
  3. ^ MIA collections.
  4. ^ A Biographical History of the Fine Arts, by Shearjashub Spooner (1867); page 1034.
  5. ^ Lanzi, Luigi (1796). Storia Pittorica. Vol. 2, first part. Bassano: Remondini. pp. 279–280.
  6. ^ Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical, by Michael Bryan, Robert Edmund Graves, Sir Walter Armstrong (1886); page 419
  7. ^ The Picture Collector's Manual: Dictionary of names by James R. Hobbes (1849): page 505.