c. 1820-1825
Kneeling Angel with Two Putti
Fortunato DurantiItalian, 1787 - 1863
One of the stranger figures of nineteenth-century Italy's artistic life, Duranti was the son of a shoemaker from a provincial backwater who made it to Rome to study art. He produced almost exclusively drawings, and he seems to have suffered some kind of mental breakdown around 1815. Duranti specialized in stylistic borrowings from the Florentine Mannerists, here especially from Jacopo Pontormo in the angel's profile and the figures' contorted poses.
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