Francesco Curradi or Currado (1570 - 1661)

• Was an Italian painter.

• Born and active in Florence.

• Curradi was the son of a jeweller, Taddeo.

• He trained under Giovanni Battista Naldini and in 1590 matriculated in the Accademia del Disegno, Florence.

• His first independent works from 1597 to 1598 were for churches in Volterra, including that in the Colleoni chapel of the local Duomo.

• He helped paint the frescoes of the Fame Exalting Michelangelo (c. 1616–1617) for the Casa Buonarroti.

• In 1622 he painted the St Francis Xavier preaching in India for the church of San Giovannino degli Scolopi in Florence, and a canvas of Narcissus and Herminia among shepherds commissioned by the cardinal Carlo de' Medici for his Casino di San Marco.

• The Uffizi has two paintings: a Martyrdom of Santa Tecla and a Beatification of the Magdalen.

• One of his pupils was Cesare Dandini.

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