A masterpiece of the florentine seventeenth century: Francesco Lupicini's David and Goliath

The painting on copper portraying David with the head of Goliath offers, for its outstanding quality, a significant addition to the catalogue of the Florentine painter Francesco Lupicini (Firenze 1591-Saragozza ca. 1656). This artist is still obscure, even to specialists, and has been so far neglected by art historical investigation, despite the works emerged over the last three decades reveal an unusually creative originality and considerably high quality . Lupicini's difficult emergence from obscurity could be related to the fact that Filippo Baldinucci (1625-1696), the official biographer of Florentine painters, fails to mention him, even briefly, in the pages of his Notizie.