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Romolo Panfi

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Landscape with Castle set Afire found in Villa La Petraia, Tuscany

Romolo Panfi (1632 in Florence – 1690 in Carmignano) was an Italian painter, active in Tuscany.[1] He was active mainly as a battle painter and landscapes.[2]

He was a pupil of Jacopo Vignali and worked in the Medici court of Grand Duke Ferdinand and his brother, Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, where Panfi was said to be talented as a musician and dancer.[3] One of his pupils was Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani[4]

References

  1. ^ 17th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, edited by Jacob Bean, page 227.
  2. ^ Biografia degli artisti (compilatore, F. de Boni). By Filippo de' Boni, 1840, page 743
  3. ^ Abecedario pittorico; by Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, Pietro Guarienti, page 448.
  4. ^ Abecedario pittorico, page 284.