Antonio Francesco Peruzzini

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Antonio Francesco Peruzzini (1643/1646–20 August 1724) was an Italian Baroque painter from Ancona, the son of Domenico, also a painter. He painted stormy landscapes, including two works in Loreto, and his style shows the influence of Salvatore Rosa as well as Dutch landscape artists popular in Italy, such as Plattenberg and Mulier. He often included imaginative, capriccio-like scenes similar to those of Marco Ricci.

Before 1687, Peruzzini traveled to Venice, Bologna, Modena, Parma, Casale Monferrato and Turin. He lived in Bologna from 1682 to 1686, collaborating with Sebastiano Ricci and Giovanni Antonio Burrini, and contributed to works like Temptations of St Antony and Landscape with Wood-Cutter (late 1690s).

In 1703 he moved to Tuscany, under the patronage of the Medici, and worked with Alessandro Magnasco, painting landscapes for Magnasco who was known for his small figures. They created works such as Landscape with Frati Penitenti di Stockholm or Landscape with St Francis in Ecstasy, now in the Uffizi. Peruzzini followed Magnasco to Milan in 1712–13, and their collaboration continued until around 1720–25.