Filippo Napoletano (1589–1629)

• Was an Italian painter.
• His real name was Filippo Teodoro di Liagno.
• He was born in Rome, he moved as a child with his family to Naples.
• He moved to Rome around 1614.
• He was influenced by successful Flemish landscape painters in Italy such as Paul Bril, Gottfried Wals, and Adam Elsheimer.
• He became one of the artistic protégés of Cardinal Del Monte.
• In 1617 Cosimo II de’ Medici summoned him to Florence.

• He held the post of court painter to the Medici family and was highly esteemed for his original works.

• Filippo is known to have made hundreds of sketches of Tuscan landscapes and towns.

• After his return to Rome in 1621, he combined easel painting with fresco.

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