Federico Faruffini (1833–1869) was an Italian painter and engraver of historical subjects, in a style that combines the styles and themes of

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with the diffuse outlines and lively colors of

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painters.

Biography

Born in Sesto, a commune now inside the metropolitan area of

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, he initially trained with Trecourt in

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. He befriended Tranquillo Cremona and accompanied him to Milan and

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. He traveled with

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. In the 1864 exposition at the Brera, he submitted a watercolor, ''Coro della Certosa di Pavia'', and four oil canvases: ''Scholars of Alciato'', an ''Annunciation'', ''Sordello e Cunizza'', and his ''Machiavelli and Borgia,'' which he both painted and engraved, and for which he received a medal in 1866. His ''Sacrifice at the Nile'' was painted for the 1865 exhibition. In 1867, at the

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, he was awarded a first prize medal for a paintings of ''Borgia'' and one of ''The death of Ernesto Cairoli''.''La Pittura lombarda nel secolo XIX.''
Tipografia Capriolo e Massimino, 1900, page 68. Lack of recognition and financial difficulties is said to have led him to his suicide at age 38, in

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Gallery

Federico Faruffini - Ponte Sant'Angelo.jpg, ''Ponte Sant'Angelo'' Federico Faruffini - La lettrice.jpg, ''The Reader'' Federico Faruffini - La gondola di Tiziano.jpg, ''Titian's Gondola'' Federico Faruffini - Il sacrificio della vergine al Nilo.jpg, ''Sacrifice of the Virgin to the Nile''

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* Attribution: * 1831 births 1869 deaths 19th-century Italian painters 19th-century Italian male artists Italian male painters People from Sesto San Giovanni Neo-Pompeian painters 1860s suicides {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub