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Torri, Flaminio
(b Bologna, 1620; d Modena, 1661). Italian painter. He was first a pupil of Giacomo Cavedoni and then studied under Simone Cantarini, whose workshop he inherited in 1648. He was attracted both by the idealizing art of Guido Reni and by the sensual and expressive power that Cantarini had developed. Torri’s first works reflect this heritage: they include the Adoration of the Magi (Bologna, S Giuseppe), which in the past has been attributed to Cantarini, the Deposition (Bologna, Pin. N.) and the Vision of St Anthony in the church of the Osservanza di Imola, both datable to c. 1650. These works are characterized by an emphasis on strong shadows. The altarpiece executed for the Fontana–Bombelli chapel in S Maria della Carità, Bologna, has been destroyed, but a vigorous bozzetto survives (Modena, Gal. & Mus. Estense); the figures are derived from the altarpiece of St Alo (Bologna, Pin. N.) by Cavedoni, an artist whose originality and modernity Torri admired. In 1658 Torri was in Modena, where he worked for Alfonso IV as superintendent of the Galleria Estense. His curatorial duties included copying the works of other painters, and his study of the art of Mattia Preti, who had worked in Modena (1651–2), encouraged him to develop a weightier naturalism. He also left a considerable number of cabinet paintings, such as the Holy Family and the Ecstasy of St Francis, which are known in several versions (e.g. Rome, Gal. Pallavicini).
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