AFFANI, IGNAZIO

AFFANI, IGNAZIO. — Painter, b. in Parma on 22 March 1828, d. in Fidenza on 29 July 1889. Trained at the school of Calegari, Pescatori, and Scaramuzza at the local Academy of Fine Arts, he sought to complete his artistic education through the study of the great sixteenth-century masters, such as Tiziano and Correggio. In 1829 he went to Florence, having won the scholarship with the painting Bramante Presents Raffaello to Julius II. He interpreted biblical and historical subjects with a Romantic sensibility; Girolamo Savonarola in Prison, preserved in the Parma Gallery together with many other works, is considered his masterpiece; in the crypt of the Duomo of the same city there remain the frescoes depicting episodes from the life of St. Bernardino.