Francesco Maffei (1605–1660)

• Was an Italian painter.
• He probably trained in his birthplace of Vicenza with his father.
• In ancient times the Maffei family settled in Verona from Germany.

• He was trained under the Mannerist painter, Alessandro Maganza.

• He is known to have traveled briefly to Venice in 1638, where he would have encountered the then brash new baroque painterly style of Liss, Strozzi, and Fetti.

• Maffei left Vicenza in 1657 and settled in Padua, where he died of the plague.
• He influenced a variety of painters, including Andrea Celesti and Antonio Bellucci, a mentor of Sebastiano Ricci. 

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