Domenico Pozzi

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Domenico Pozzi

Domenico Pozzi (born August 3, 1745 in Bruzella ; † November 2, 1796 in Riva San Vitale ) was a history and portrait painter and belongs to the Pozzi family of artists from Ticino .

Live and act

Domenico Pozzi painted pictures as a child. According to the story, he found brushes and paint by chance and painted the family friend of the family very talented, so that his father Francesco Pozzi did not train him as a plasterer like his older brothers Giuseppe Antonio and Carlo Luca Pozzi , but as a painter.

Domenico Pozzi first trained with the fresco painter Giuseppe Appiani in Milan and then went to the art academy. Later he went to Parma and at the age of 21 was awarded the “Grand Prize for Painting”. He moved to Rome, where he lived for two years. There he won second prize for his picture “The Transfiguration of Christ”.

Finally he went on a long trip to Como , Milan and Mannheim . In Mannheim, he and his brother Giuseppe decorated the ceiling of Count Castelli's library. Finally he painted the three round pictures "Faith", "Love" and "Hope" on the vault of the central nave of St. Ursus Cathedral in Solothurn . Other works were two pictures of the Passion of Christ for the Crucifixion Chapel in Castel San Pietro . One picture shows the crowning of thorns and the other the flagellation of Jesus. In Genoa he took part in the painting of the council room of the newly built Palazzo Municipale.

Domenico Pozzi was friends with the art historian Johann Caspar Füssli and provided him with a lot of information for his work “History of the best artists in Switzerland”. Domenico Pozzi was married to Maria Antonia Vassalli from Riva S. Vitale and died in 1796.

literature

  • SA Colombo: ll ritratto a Milano dopo Giacomo Ceruti: proposte per Domenico Pozzi. In: Nuovi studi: rivista di arte antica e moderna. , No. 11, 2005, pp. 283-287
  • Anastasia Gilardi: Domenico Pozzi da Castel San Pietro (1745-1796). In: Nuovi studi: rivista di arte antica e moderna. No. 11, pp. 277-282.
  • Anastasia Gilardi: Domenico Pozzi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 13, 2012 , accessed January 16, 2020 .

Web links

Commons : Domenico Pozzi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e F. Schwendimann: St. Ursen. Cathedral of the diocese of Basel and parish church of Solothurn . 1928, pp. 31-32
personal data
SURNAME Pozzi, Domenico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ticino history and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1745
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruzella
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1796
Place of death Riva San Vitale