Giuseppe Ciaranfi

Giuseppe Ciaranfi (1838, Pistoia - 18 January 1902, Florence) was an Italian history and genre painter.

In 1859, he was admitted to the nude figure lessons at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

[1] Three years later, he made his debut with a work depicting Benedetto Varchi, discussing Florentine history with Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Together with other painters and men of letters, he frequented the cultural salons held at the home of the architect Francesco Bartolini [it] and his wife, the Irish-born poet Louisa Grace Bartolini, who was also an artist.

In 1892, he created a popular portrait of Savonarola and, in 1901, he participated in the eighth International Art Exhibition at the Glaspalast in Munich.