Francesco Rustici was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period. He was initially a pupil of his father Cristoforo Rustici

Cristoforo Rustici

Cristoforo Rustici was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active in Siena.He trained with his father, known as the painter il Rustico and later with il Sodoma. His son Francesco Rustici was also a painter.-References:...

, then became a follower of the style of Caravaggio

Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...

. Francesco painted an Annunciation for the church of the Madonna di Provenzano in Siena

Siena

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. He painted a Death of Mary Magdalen for a Medici patron, and St. Sebastian for Palazzo Borghese

Palazzo Borghese

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. Francesco should not be confused with the earlier Renaissance painter of Florence, Giovanni Francesco Rustici

Giovanni Francesco Rustici

Giovanni Francesco Rustici was an Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor.He was born into a noble family of Florence, with an independent income...

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