Francesco Albani

1578–1660 · Baroque

Francesco Albani or Albano was an Italian Baroque painter of Albanian descent who was active in Bologna, Rome, Viterbo (1609–1610), Mantua (1621–1622) and Florence (1633). He was a distinguished artist of the Bolognese school, deeply influenced by Annibale Carracci’s classicism. His fame rests on his idyllic landscapes and small mythological pictures, the lyrical qualities of which earned him the soubriquet ‘the Anacreon of painters’.

39 paintings

• Virgin and Child Adored by Saint Francis (c. 1606)
• Assumption of Mary (1620)
• Rest on the Flight to Egypt (1604)
• Venus and Amor (1630)
• self-portrait (1650)
• Gefügelter Putto mit den Instrumenten von Minerva
• Toilet of Venus (1660)
• Triomphe de Vénus
• Landscape with Venus and Cupids
• Apostles around the Sepulchre of the Virgin Mary (1604)
• Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1604)
• Dance of the Cupids (1624) (1624)
• Sleeping Cupid. (1637)
• The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1630)
• Penitent Magdalene (1625)
• Two bathing nymphs
• Galatea in the Shell Cart (1632)
• The Ecstasy of Mary Magdalene (1640)
• Holy Women at Christ's Tomb (1642)
• Rape of Europa (1642)
• Jesus von Engeln bedient (1700)
• Die heilige Familie in einer Landschaft (1700)
• Rest on the Flight to Egypt (1637)
• Cybele and the seasons or Allegory of the Earth (1630)
• Predication of Saint John the Baptist (1650)
• The Baptism of Christ (1650)
• La Sainte Famille (1641)
• Adonis Led by Cupids to Venus (1627)
• The Rest of Venus and Vulcan (1627)
• Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (1630)
• Noli me tangere (1620)
• St. Francis of Assisi in Prayer before a Crucifix (1640)
• Venus and Adonis (1630)
• Apollo and Daphne (1615)
• Eternal Father and Archangel Gabriel (1650)
• Holy Family with Angels (1609)
• The judgement of Paris (1650)
• Hvilen på flugten til Egypten (1593-1660)
• Hvilen på flugten til Egypten (1593-1660)