Francesco Guarino or Guarini (1611 – 1651 or 1654) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in the mountainous area east of

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called

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, and in other areas of the Kingdom of Naples, chiefly

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, Apulia, and

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Biography

He was born in Sant'Andrea Apostolo, today a ''

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'' of Solofra in the Province of Avellino,

, and died in

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. He was a pupil first locally of his father, Giovanni Tommaso Guarino, before moving to

to work in the studio of

Massimo Stanzione Massimo Stanzione (also called Stanzioni; 1585 – 1656) was an Italian Baroque painter, mainly active in Naples, where he and his rival Jusepe de Ribera dominated the painting scene for several decades. He was primarily a painter of altarpiece ...

. In Naples, like many of his contemporaries there, he was influenced by the style of Caravaggio. In his selection of models who appear to have been plucked from the streets of Naples, he recalls the style of

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, the fellow-pupil of Stanzioni. Among his masterpieces are the works for Collegiata di San Michele Arcangelo in Solofra.

References

Short biography

External links

''Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi''
a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Francesco Guarino (see index) 1611 births 1650s deaths People from the Province of Avellino 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Naples Caravaggisti {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub