De Danaïden

Ciro Ferri

1644 - 1689

De Danaïden by Ciro Ferri

Medium

pen

Dimensions

190; 207

About this artwork

Gift of Frederik Muller & Co.

About the Artist

Ciro Ferri

Ciro Ferri (1634–1689) was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver who served as the principal artistic heir and studio assistant of Pietro da Cortona, the dominant decorative painter of seventeenth-century Rome. Born in Rome, Ferri entered Cortona's workshop as a young man and proved so skilled that he became the master's most trusted collaborator, eventually taking over the completion of major c...

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