Fortunato Duranti was an Italian

Italy

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 painter and collector.

Durant was born at Montefortino

Montefortino

Montefortino is a comune in the Province of Fermo in the Italian region Marche, located about 80 km south of Ancona, about 35 km northwest of Ascoli Piceno and about 45 km west of Fermo...

, in what are now the Marche

Marche

The population density in the region is below the national average. In 2008, it was 161.5 inhabitants per km2, compared to the national figure of 198.8. It is highest in the province of Ancona , and lowest in the province of Macerata...

, then part of the Papal States

Papal States

The Papal State, State of the Church, or Pontifical States were among the major historical states of Italy from roughly the 6th century until the Italian peninsula was unified in 1861 by the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia .The Papal States comprised territories under...

. His father was a shoemaker of limited means. In Rome he befriended Nicola Consoni (director of the Academy of Saint Luke) and Tommaso Minardi. He was influenced by the neoclassic painter Felice Giani

Felice Giani

Felice Giani was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic style. His grand manner subjects often included Greco-Roman allusions or themes....

. In 1807, he traveled to Rome to study in the school of Domenico Conti, who had trained with Giuseppe Bazzani

Giuseppe Bazzani

Giuseppe Bazzani was an Italian painter of the Rococo.Born in Mantua to a goldsmith, Giovanni Bazzani, early on he apprenticed with the Parmesan painter Giovanni Canti . A fellow pupil was Francesco Maria Raineri. He spent most of his life in Mantua...

  and Pompeo Batoni

Pompeo Batoni

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. Under the patronage in Rome of cardinal Bernardino Honorati, he was influenced by Vincenzo Camuccini

Vincenzo Camuccini

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, Pelagio Palagi

Pelagio Palagi

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, Felice Giani, and Bartolomeo Pinelli

Bartolomeo Pinelli

Bartolomeo Pinelli was an Italian illustrator and engraver.-Life:Pinelli was born and died in Rome, the son of a religious statues modeler. Pinelli was educated first in Bologna and then at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He lived in a poor quarter of Rome...

. When the cardinal died, he became an antiquarian. On a planned trip to Germany in 1815, he was arrested and his works confiscated. In the 1820s, he became mainly a printmaker, acquiring an expressive graphic style of works influenced by the works of Henry Fuseli

Henry Fuseli

Henry Fuseli was a British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, of Swiss origin.-Biography:...

 and Francisco Goya

Francisco Goya

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, but still with an Italianate religious thematic. He is now best known for his etchings and drawings. He painted little, but thousands of his drawings are conserved by the Commune of Montefortino or were collected Giovan Batiste Carducci from Fermo

Fermo

Fermo is a town and comune of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo.Fermo is located on a hill, the Sabulo with a fine view, on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway....

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Never married, and despite his often precarious economic well-being, Fortunato often donated hundreds of items of art and furniture he had collected to the town of Montefortino, including paintings attributed to Piero della Francesca

Piero della Francesca

Piero della Francesca was a painter of the Early Renaissance. As testified by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Artists, to contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting was characterized by its...

, Domenico Ghirlandaio

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Domenico Ghirlandaio was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Among his many apprentices was Michelangelo.-Early years:Ghirlandaio's full name is given as Domenico di Tommaso di Currado di Doffo Bigordi...

, Carlo Crivelli

Carlo Crivelli

Carlo Crivelli was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivarini, Squarcione and Mantegna...

, Corrado Giaquinto

Corrado Giaquinto

Corrado Giaquinto was an Italian Rococo painter.-Early training and move to Rome:He was born in Molfetta. As a boy he apprenticed with a modest local painter Saverio Porta, , escaping the religious career his parents had intended for him...

, Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona, by the name of Pietro Berrettini, born Pietro Berrettini da Cortona, was the leading Italian Baroque painter of his time and also one of the key architects in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important decorator...

, Jacopo da Bassano, Cristopher Unterberger

Cristopher Unterberger

Christopher Unterberger was an Italian painter of the early-Neoclassical period.-Biography:He was born in Cavalese in County of Tyrol . He was initially taught drawing by an uncle, Franz Unterberger, and then in the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, where Michelangelo Unterberger, was the...

, Pietro Perugino

Pietro Perugino

Pietro Perugino , born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance...

, Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...

, Cunx Taddeo, Rosa da Tivoli, Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci

Annibale Carracci was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early career:Annibale Carracci was born in Bologna, and in all likelihood first apprenticed within his family...

, Carlo Dolci

Carlo Dolci

Carlo Dolci was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions.-Biography:...

, Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs

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, Pierre Subleyras

Pierre Subleyras

Pierre Subleyras was a French painter, active during the late-Baroque and early-Neoclassic period, mainly in Italy....

, Placido Costanzi

Placido Costanzi

Placido Costanzi was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.He was born to a family of gem-makers in Rome, where he became a pupil of Benedetto Luti and painted mainly historical and devotional subjects. He painted a St. Camillus in Santa Maria Maddalena, in which he has aspired to the...

, Raffaellino da Reggio

Raffaellino da Reggio

Raffaellino da Reggio was an Italian painter from Emilia, active in a Mannerist style mainly in Rome.Also variously named Raffaellino Motta or Rafaellino da Reggio or a variety of combinations, he was born at Codemondo near Reggio Emilia. Initially trained under the painter Lelio Orsi...

, and Giuseppe Ghezzi

Giuseppe Ghezzi

Giuseppe Ghezzi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.Born in Ascoli Piceno, Marche , he was the son and pupil of the painter Sebastiano Ghezzi. He painted in the style of Pietro da Cortona. Giuseppe Ghezzi was the first secretary in perpetuity for the Accademia di...

. The remainder of the collection is presently displayed in a pinacoteca. A catalogue of the collection can be found at Pinacoteca Civica Fortunato Duranti

Pinacoteca Civica Fortunato Duranti

The 19th century painter Fortunato Duranti donated hundreds of items or art and furniture, he had collected to the town of Montefortino. The remainder of the collection is presently displayed in a pinacoteca .-Paintings in Pinacoteca Civica Fortunato Duranti:...

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