Scuola fiorentina dell'inizio del XVII secolo

oil on canvas, framed, defects

cm 104,5x83

The following technical sheet of the work was created by Professor Sandro Bellesi as part of the inventory of the paintings of the Fattoria Franceschini. The painting, in good condition, depicts a member of the Florentine Pitti family linked to the Knighthood of Santo Stefano, an order born by the will of Cosimo I de 'Medici, who, made official by Pope Pius IV in 1562, took care to preserve, by means of a naval fleet, the coasts of Tuscany from the frequent pirate raids, especially Moorish or, to use a more modern term, Muslim. Referable to a Florentine artist active in the early decades of the seventeenth century sensitive to the lessons of Santi di Tito and Alessandro Allori, the work seems to anticipate in the setting of the figure later portraits of characters linked to maritime life, such as the pair of canvases with Giovanni and Lodovico Da Verrazzano by Orazio Fidani.