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| Ciro Ferri Reconciliation of Jacob and Laban before 1689 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Ciro Ferri Penitent Magdalen with Angels bearing Instruments of the Passion 1660 oil on canvas Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City |
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| Ciro Ferri Mystic Marriage of St Catherine ca. 1686 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Ciro Ferri Joseph and Potiphar's Wife before 1689 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers |
"Ferri was born in Rome in 1634 and, beginning in the 1650s, was a student and collaborator of Pietro da Cortona. Among the followers of Cortona, Ferri was the one who stood closest to his master in terms of personality and style; when he fully applied his talents his art is difficult to differentiate from that of Cortona. His use of color, however, is usually noticeably duller and less cheerful, his draftsmanship less solid and certain, and his compositions more schematic. . . . Yet his talent for adaptability was astonishing. All told, one might consider Ferri to be the prototype of that later phase of the Cortonesque manner that took the style of the master in his maturity, with its consummate ease and certainty, as its example, but without having resource to Cortona's own independent concept of nature or his solid artistic foundation."
– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)
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| Ciro Ferri Hall of Saturn Ceiling 1663 fresco Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Ciro Ferri Moses defending the Daughters of Jethro ca. 1660-89 oil on canvas Museu de Arte de São Paulo |
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| Ciro Ferri Elijah and the Widow of Serepta ca. 1669-89 oil on canvas National Trust, Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire |
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| Ciro Ferri Abraham expelling Hagar and Ishmael ca. 1669-89 oil on canvas National Trust, Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire |
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| Ciro Ferri Adoration of the Shepherds 1670 oil on copper Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Ciro Ferri Coriolanus at the Gates of Rome ca. 1680-87 oil on canvas Bildergalerie Sanssouci, Potsdam |
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| Ciro Ferri Group of Saint on Clouds (study for fresco inside a dome) ca. 1670-75 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Ciro Ferri Angel and Putto supporting Drapery-Swag before 1689 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Ciro Ferri Victorious Warrior (design for relief-work on the back of a coach) ca. 1683-85 drawing Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Ciro Ferri Académie before 1689 drawing British Museum |