Romolo Panfi

Romolo Panfi (1632 in Florence – 1690 in Carmignano) was an Italian painter, active in Tuscany.^[1] He was active mainly as a battle painter and landscapes.^[2]

He was a pupil of Jacopo Vignali and worked in the Medici court of Grand Duke Ferdinand and his brother, Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, where Panfi was said to be talented as a musician and dancer.^[3] One of his pupils was Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani^[4]

References

1. 17th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, edited by Jacob Bean, page 227.
2. Biografia degli artisti (compilatore, F. de Boni). By Filippo de' Boni, 1840, page 743
3. Abecedario pittorico; by Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, Pietro Guarienti, page 448.
4. Abecedario pittorico, page 284.