Ancient Oil Painting On Canvas - Saint Francis Of Paola - Antonio Cifrondi (1656-1730)

Oil painting on canvas depicting San Francesco Di Paola with a gilded frame from the 19th century -
Painting late 17th century early 18th century On the frame is written Antonio Cifrondi.
size frame 115 cm x 85 cm painting 90x65 cm
There is no certain attribution comparing other paintings by the same author we find many affinities.
ANTONIO CIFRONDI
(Clusone, 1656 - Brescia, 1730)
Antonio Cifrondi was among the most important protagonists of Lombard painting between the 17th and 18th centuries and his training is still largely to be reconstructed. According to sources (Tassi, 1793) he was apprenticed to the mediocre painter from Clusone Cavalier del Negro, of whom nothing is known. He was later able to benefit from a scholarship made available every year to three poor young men from Clusone who wanted to continue their studies in the liberal arts (Belotti, 1959). In Bologna he was supposedly a pupil of Marcantonio Franceschini: but the influences of the Bolognese painter's style cannot be perceived, while his return to his hometown is documented in 1687. The pictorial characteristics of his works are constituted by a diffuse luminosity and a chiaroscuro contrast in the figure-background relationship, while the application is modulated on sometimes diaphanous liquidity and the painting presented here stands out for its great expressive force and monumentality.