Antique oil on canvas painting -St. Francis Di Paola -Antonio Cifrondi ( 1656-1730 )

Oil painting on canvas depicting St. Francis Di Paola with gilded frame of the xix century-Painting late 600s early 700sOn the frame is inscribed Antonio Cifrondi.mis. frame 115 cm x 85 cm painting 90x65 cmWe do not have a certain attribution comparing other paintings of the same author we find many affinities'.ANTONIO CIFRONDI(Clusone, 1656 - Brescia, 1730)Antonio Cifrondi was among the most important protagonists of Lombard painting between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and his training is still largely to be reconstructed. According to sources (Tassi, 1793) he was apprenticed to the mediocre Clusonese painter Cavalier del Negro, about whom nothing is known. He was later able to benefit from a scholarship made available annually for three poor young men from Cluson who wanted to continue their studies in the liberal arts (Belotti, 1959). In Bologna he is said to have been a pupil of Marcantonio Franceschini: but of the Bolognese painter's manner the influences are not discernible, while his return to his hometown is documented in 1687. The pictorial features of his works consist of diffuse luminosity and chiaroscuro contrast in the figure ; background relationship, while the drafting is modulated on sometimes diaphanous liquidities, and the painting presented here, stands out for its great expressive force and monumentality.