# LAURI, Filippo [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1623–1694 - Profession: painter - School: Italian ## Biography Italian painter and draughtsman. He studied first with his father, Balthasar Lauwers \(1578-1645\), a Flemish landscape painter whose name was Italianized as Lauri, and then with his elder brother, Francesco Lauri \(1612-37\), and with his brother-in-law, Angelo Caroselli. At least until the death of Caroselli \(1652\) he worked as a copyist. Francesco had been a pupil of Andrea Sacchi, and Filippo, who was thus trained in a classical tradition, developed an elegant style, indebted to 17th-century Bolognese painters, particularly Domenichino and Francesco Albani. In 1654 Lauri became a member of the Accademia di S Luca, Rome, of which he later became Principe \(1684-85\). He painted some fresco decorations, but specialised mainly in cabinet pictures of religious or mythological subjects. ## Related artworks - [Bacchanal]() - [Endymion and Selene]() - [Faun and Cupid in a Landscape]() - [King Midas Judging the Musical Contest between Apollo and Pan]() - [Rape of Oreithyia]() - [Venus and Adonis]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()