painter, professor at Bologna Academy, won several medals. Works: Tasso reading his Poem to Leonora; Daughter of Jephtha; The brazen Serpent.
FERRARI, GREGORIO DE', born at
Porto Maurizio in 1644, died at Genoa in
1726. Genoese school; history painter,
pupil of Il Sarzana; studied in Parma
works of Correggio, whom he imitated successfully;
was much employed in Genoa,
Turin, and Marseilles. Works: Apollo and
the Muses, Plato and Aristotle with their
Scholars, Genoa University; St. Michael, in
Madonna delle Vigne, Genoa; others in Palazzo
Balbi, Genoa. His son, Lorenzo (1680-1744),
was a still better imitator of Correggio,
and excelled in fresco; works in Palazzo
Doria, Palazzo Carega, and in churches,
Genoa.—Ch. Blanc, École génoise; Lanzi
(Roscoe), iii. 258, 281; Nagler, iv. 291.
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FERRARI, LUCA, called Luca da Reggio,
born at
Reggio, in
1603, died at
Padua in 1652.
Venetian
school; history
painter,
pupil of Guido
Reni; lived and
taught in Padua,
among his
pupils being Minorello and Cirello. Works:
Pietà, S. Antonio, Padua; The Plague (1630),
The Dominicans, Padua; Magdalen, Death
of Cleopatra, Tomyris with the Head of Cyrus,
Estense Gallery, Modena; Painting
crowned by Fame, Bordeaux Museum.—Lanzi
(Roscoe), ii. 267, 363.
FERRETTI, GIOVANNI DOMENICO,
called da Imola, born at Florence in 1692.
Florentine school; history painter, pupil of
Giovanni Gioseffo del Sole; painted mostly for
the churches and palaces of Florence, Pisa,
Leghorn, Siena, Pistoja, and Imola. Among
his best works are a Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew
in S. Bartolommeo, Pisa, and the
cupola painting in S. Filippo Neri, Pistoja.
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FERRI, CIRO, born in Rome in 1634,
died there, Sept. 13, 1689. Roman school; history
painter,
pupil of Pietro
da Cortona,
whose style he
imitated so
closely that it
is difficult to
distinguish
his work from
that of his master.
He finished
Cortona's frescos in the Palazzo
Pitti, Florence, and other uncompleted
works in Rome. His best original works
are the ceiling of the Annunziata, baroque
style, and the cupola of S. Agnese in the
Piazza Navona, Rome, which he left unfinished
at his death. Works: Repose in
Egypt, Madonna with St. Martina, Old Pinakothek,
Munich; Christ appearing to Magdalen,
Vienna Museum; Marriage of the
Virgin, Amsterdam Museum; Rape of Helen,
Darmstadt Museum; St. Theresa, Oldenburg
Gallery; David and Saul, Copenhagen Gallery;
Christ on the Cross, Alexander reading
Homer, Artist's portrait, Uffizi, Florence;
Coriolanus and his Family, Roman Warrior,
Estense Gallery, Modena; Vision of St.
Catherine of Siena, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Triumph of Bacchus, Hampton Court.—Lanzi,
i. 498; Ch. Blanc, École ombrienne;
Burckhardt, 149, 768.
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FERRIER, (JOSEPH MARIE AUGUSTIN)
GABRIEL, born at Nîmes, Sept. 29,
1847. French school; history and portrait
painter, pupil of Lecoq de Boisbaudran;
won grand prix de Rome in 1872. Medals:
2d class, 1876; 1st class, 1878; L. of Honour,
1884. Works: Greek Improviser, B.C.
30 (1872); Abduction of Ganymede (1875);
David Conqueror of Goliath, Nîmes Museum;
David and Bathsheba (1876), Martyrdom of
