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3 unusual facts about Fortunato Duranti


Fortunato Duranti

In the 1820s, he became mainly a printmaker, acquiring an expressive graphic style of works influenced by the works of Henry Fuseli and Francisco Goya, but still with an Italianate religious thematic.

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Under the patronage in Rome of cardinal Bernardino Honorati, he was influenced by Camuccini, Pelagio Palagi, Felice Giani, and Bartolomeo Pinelli.

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.



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