Davide Antonio Fossati
Davide Antonio Fossati , also David Anton Fossati (born April 21, 1708 in Morcote , Old Confederation ; died December 28, 1795 in Venice ) was an Italian engraver and painter of Swiss origin.
Life
David (e) Anton (io) Fossati was a son of the military engineer and painter Giorgio Domenico Fossati and Maria Francesca Paleari. Fossati went to Venice in 1720. He was trained in drawing with Vicenzo Maria Mariotti and in painting with Daniel Gran .
He moved to Vienna with Gran in 1723. There he painted in the Palais Althan in 1724 and in the Palais Schwarzenberg in 1725 , as well as in the Viennese court library in 1727 . He switched to Antonio Galliardi and Anton Hertzog as a fresco artist and worked, among other things, in Vienna's Leopold Church . In 1728 he painted in Pressburg in the bishop's palace and in the Trinitarian church based on designs by Alessandro Galli da Bibiena . In 1729 he worked in the refectory of the abbey church in Pannonhalma (Sankt Martinsberg).
In 1730 Fossati returned to Venice and in 1731 executed wall paintings in the Villa Cornaro Torre near Este and in the nunnery of Santa Margaretta near Lauis . He then also turned to engraving. In 1738 he married the Morcote cousin Giacomina Rezzi, daughter of the painter Antonio Rezzi . They had three children who reached adulthood. In 1743 he announced a volume in Venice with 24 etchings after paintings by Marco Ricci from the collections of Joseph Smith and Antonio Maria Zanetti . The quarterback was dedicated to Francesco Algarotti , who was on a shopping trip for the Saxon ruler in Venice. In 1775 Fossati was elected honorary member of the Accademia di belle arti di Venezia , and in 1778 a member of the Accademia Clementina di Bologna and the College of Painters of Venice.
literature
- Marialuisa Angiolillo: Fossati, Davide Antonio . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 43, Saur, Munich a. a. 2004, ISBN 3-598-22783-3 , p. 8.
- Fossati, Davide Antonio . In: Michael Bryan, Robert Edmund Graves (Eds.): Dictionary of painters and engravers, biographical and critical . G. Bell and Sons, London 1886, p. 513 (English, text archive - Internet Archive - with naming of some works and monogram).
- Laura Damiani Cabrini: Davide Antonio Fossati. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . September 21, 2000 , accessed January 28, 2020 .
- Giorgio Marini: Fossati, Davide Antonio. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 49: Forino – Francesco da Serino. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1997.
- Michael Matile (ed.): Della grafica veneziana: the age of Anton Maria Zanetti (1680–1767). Imhof, Petersberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7319-0330-7 , pp. 130-135.
- Carlo Palumbo-Fossati: I Fossati di Morcote. Istituto Editoriale Ticinese, Bellinzona 1970.
- Fossati, Davide Antonio . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 12 : Fiori-Fyt . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1916, p. 238–239 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Davide Antonio Fossati in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Davide Antonio Fossati in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ^ Lara Calderari: Giorgio Domenico Fossati. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 27, 2007 .
- ^ Change with Manfred Koller: Hertzog, Anton . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 72, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023177-9 , p. 432 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fossati, Davide Antonio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fossati, David Anton |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian engraver and painter of Swiss origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1708 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morcote |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1795 |
| Place of death | Venice |