Federico Faruffini
Italian painter and engraver (1833-1869)
Federico Faruffini (12 August 1833 – 15 December 1869) was an Italian painter and engraver of historical subjects. He worked in a style that combines the styles and themes of Realism with the diffuse outlines and lively colors of Scapigliatura painters.
Biography
Early life and education
Federico Faruffini was born in Sesto, a commune now inside the metropolitan area of Milan. Obliged by his father to study law at the University of Pavia, he also enrolled at the local art school. When he abandoned his legal studies, he received essential financial support from his two brothers. With the painting Cola di Rienzo Contemplating the Ruins of Ancient Rome (1855; Pavia, Visconti Castle), Faruffini relinquished the academic Romanticism of Francesco Hayez and of Giacomo Trécourt, head of the art school in Pavia, adopting instead a style clearly influenced by the work of Giovanni Carnovali.
Early career
Faruffini apparently first visited Rome in 1856, remaining there until 1858. During this period he received his first official commission, the Immaculate Conception for Pavia Cathedral, and also painted Cardinal Ascanio Sforza Examining the Model of Pavia Cathedral (Pavia, Visconti Castle). In 1860 he went to Venice, probably to visit the painter Tranquillo Cremona, whom he had known in Pavia. The impact of the colour in Venetian painting was immediately apparent in Faruffini’s Titian’s Gondola (Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera), in which he attempted a new form of history painting.
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