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3 unusual facts about Fortunato Duranti


Fortunato Duranti

In the 1820s, he became mainly a printmaker, acquiring an expressive graphic style of works influenced by the works of Henry Fuseli and Francisco Goya, but still with an Italianate religious thematic.

Under the patronage in Rome of cardinal Bernardino Honorati, he was influenced by Camuccini, Pelagio Palagi, Felice Giani, and Bartolomeo Pinelli.

Pinacoteca Civica Fortunato Duranti

The 19th-century painter Fortunato Duranti donated hundreds of items or art and furniture, he had collected to the town of Montefortino.



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