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| Flaminio Torre Head of Youth before 1661 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Flaminio Torre Head of Youth before 1661 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| attributed to Flaminio Torre Study for a Sibyl before 1661 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Flaminio Torre Figure-study before 1661 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
"An undoubted scholar of Simone Cantarini was Flaminio Torre, called degli Ancinelli, who came from the studio of Giacomo Cavedone and Guido Reni. His chief talent consisted in an easy and perfect imitation of every style, which brought him as high a price for his copies as was given for the originals of eminent artists, sometimes even more. Though not learned in the theory of the art, by his practical ability he acquired the manner of Cantarini, dismissing, however, his ashy colour, and often turning to the imitation of Guido. He was court-painter at Modena; and at Bologna in particular are preserved both scriptural and profane histories, displaying very pleasing figures as large as Poussin, or on the same scale. Some I saw in possession of Monsig. Bonfigliuoli, others in the collection of the librarian Magnani; and some still more firm, and in the best style of colouring, in the Ratta palace. Yet we rarely meet with them uninjured by the use of rock oil, which he carried to excess; and his church paintings, such as a Deposition from the Cross at S. Giorgio, as they have been least attended to, have suffered the most. On the death of Simone Cantarini [in 1648], as his first pupil, Flaminio Torre succeeded to his magisterial office, and promoted the progress of the scholars whom Cantarini left. Of these, Girolamo Rossi succeeded better in engraving than in painting. Lorenzo Pasinelli became an excellent master, but of a different style, as we shall see in another epoch. The most eminent among Torre's disciples was Giulio Cesare Milani, rather admired in the churches of Bologna, and extolled in many adjacent states."
– Luigi Lanzi, from The History of Painting in Italy: the schools of Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa and Piedmont, translated by Thomas Roscoe (London: H.G. Bohn, 1847)
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| Flaminio Torre St John the Baptist before 1661 drawing National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro |
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| Flaminio Torre St John the Evangelist in clouds before 1661 drawing National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro |
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| Flaminio Torre Virgin and Child before 1661 drawing National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro |
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| Flaminio Torre Head of Child before 1661 drawing National Library of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro |
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| Flaminio Torre Head of Young Woman before 1661 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Flaminio Torre Studies of the Virgin and Child, and a Monastic Saint supported by Angels before 1661 drawing British Museum |
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| Flaminio Torre Group of Figures before 1661 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| attributed to Flaminio Torre Study of Standing Woman, and Head of Christ before 1661 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Flaminio Torre Study of Standing Woman before 1661 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| attributed to Flaminio Torre Virgin and Child before 1661 drawing British Museum |
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| attributed to Flaminio Torre St Peter in Penitence before 1661 oil on canvas Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna |