Antonio Ruffo
Antonio Ruffo (1610 or 1611 - 16 June 1678) was an important Sicilian politician, nobleman, patron and collector from the Ruffo di Calabria family. He was probably born in Castle Bagnara or Messina and died in Messina.His collections included coins, silverware, paintings by Anthony van Dyck (''Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague–Stricken of Palermo''), Paul Bril, Jacob Jordaens, Abraham Casembroot and others, several Rembrandt etchings and tapestries of ''The Life of Achilles'' to designs by Rubens. He commissioned three paintings from Rembrandt (''Aristotle with a Bust of Homer'', ''Alexander the Great'' and ''Homer Dictating his Verses'') and corresponded with Artemisia Gentileschi, Cornelis de Wael and Abraham Brueghel.
He was also the owner of ''Erminia and the Shepherd'' (Guercino, 1649), ''The History of Pythagoras: Buying Fishes'' and ''The History of Pythagoras: Coming out of the Cave'' (Salvator Rosa).
After the earthquake of 1783, his first-born son Giovanni Ruffo rescued 112 paintings and brought them to Scaletta. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Domenico Prezioso, Fabrizio Iacono, Umberto Russo, Giuseppe Romeo, Antonio Ruffo, Nicola Russo, Ester IllianoGet full text
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Published 2021-08-01
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