Onofri was a pupil of Gaspard Dughet and painted principally landscapes. In 1671 he was working in the Doria Pamphili Palace in Rome and he later produced canvas paintings and frescoes of landscapes for prominent Roman families, including the Colonna, Pallavicini and Theodoli. The figures in his pictures are sometimes by other artists.
Crescenzio Onofri
1640s - after 1712
Paintings by Crescenzio Onofri
Threatening clouds loom over the distant mountains and dwarf the cluster of buildings and stone bridge in the middle ground. Above the clouds, the sky is dark.There is a sense of movement throughout the scene, from the trees and clouds blown by the wind to the fishermen hauling in a net from the...
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We look across a vast landscape. In the middle of the scene, a washerwoman walks along a dirt track, her clothing bright in the sun. Beyond her, further up the mountain, a shepherd drives his flock onward; in the foreground, two pairs of figures chat.This large-scale picture was probably painted...
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