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| Filippo Lauri Pan and Diana before 1694 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Filippo Lauri Bacchanal 1675 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Filippo Lauri Sleeping Venus before 1694 oil on canvas Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire |
"Born in Rome in 1623, Filippo Lauri was the son of the painter Balthasar Lauri, who had immigrated to Italy from Antwerp. Filippo undertook his early training with his elder brother, Francesco, who died at an early age. He then became the pupil of his cousin, Angelo Caroselli, though his own art did not follow in Caroselli's direction. From the mid-1640s onward he was independently active and, through the influence of his teacher, he soon attracted the patronage of the Roman nobility and of many foreign connoisseurs. His style appears to have been primarily influenced by Pier Francesco Mola and other masters of history painting involving small figures. Lauri's delight in minute detail, applied with a finely pointed brush, clearly reveals his Flemish heritage. Because of his pliant and pleasing ability he was frequently called upon by other painters for the decoration of landscape or architectural paintings with mythological or biblical staffage; this was especially the case with Claude Lorrain, in whose landscapes the foreground is often enlivened by the charming inventions of Lauri."
– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)
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| Filippo Lauri Mercury transforming Chelone into a Turtle ca. 1671 oil on canvas Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Filippo Lauri Venus and Adonis ca. 1671 oil on canvas Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas |
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| Filippo Lauri Jacob fleeing Laban 1686 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Filippo Lauri Holy Family ca. 1670-90 oil on canvas Glasgow Museums |
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| Filippo Lauri Judgment of Paris before 1694 oil on canvas Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire |
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| Filippo Lauri Wooded River Landscape with Jupiter pursuing a Nymph 1644 oil on copper private collection |
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| Filippo Lauri Penitent Magdalen before 1694 oil on copper private collection |
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| attributed to Filippo Lauri after Agostino Carracci Pan and Syrinx before 1694 oil on copper Watford Museum, Hertfordshire |
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| Filippo Lauri Venus and Adonis before 1694 oil on copper Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna |
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| Filippo Lauri Rest on the Flight into Egypt before 1694 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Filippo Lauri Apollo and Marsyas before 1694 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |