A landscape painter and an established etcher, Crescenzio Onofri was one of the closest pupils and assistant of Gaspard Dughet, also known as 'Gaspard Poussin', with whom he collaborated on canvases painted for the Salone del Trono in the Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj in Rome. Onofri worked for about 20 years in Rome, taking part in the decoration of the residences and palaces of the most outstanding roman families, Pamphili, Pallavicini, Rospigliosi and Colonna. His frescoed decoration of four rooms in the Palazzo Theodoli in San Vito Romano, near Rome, was particularly successful. Later he moved to Florence (c. 1690) where he worked until his death for the court of the Grand Duke Cosimo III. Several paintings by him in the possession of the Florentine Galleries bear witness of his long period of service for the Medici. |
