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ALLEGRINI. Horses and Knights. Drawing. ALLEGRINI, Francesco. Horses and Knights. Drawing.1624-1684 Sheet of mm. 113x184. Pen drawings, brown ink. The subjects are depicted on the front and back of the sheet. Small restorations. Good conditions. Beautiful studio with rampant horses, seen from different angles, mounted by their riders. The painter also plastically depicts a horse falling to the ground, while the rider tries to keep his balance. Born in Gubbio from a family of painters, Francesco was influenced first by Cavalier d'Arpino, then by Pietro da Cortona. At Palazzo Pamphilj in Rome he worked alongside Cortona, creating various fresco decorations around 1660. To this production he added the activity of a painter of battles and history, within which the study of horses in this sheet can be placed. M. Nocella, Flaminio and Francesco Allegrini. Documentary news and additions to the corpus of works, Città di Castello, 2007.
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