Francesco Antonio Giorgioli

Francesco Antonio Giorgioli: Conversion of St. Paul in front of Damascus , main fresco in the monastery church of St. Trudpert, 1716–1722

Francesco Antonio Giorgioli (* 1655 in Meride ; † 1725 ibid) was a Swiss baroque painter .

Life

Giorgioli created ceiling and wall frescoes, occasionally also altarpieces, for churches and occasionally for castles, especially in today's cantons of Ticino , Graubünden , Aargau and Lucerne . His works mostly depict scenes from the Bible or from the lives of saints; they are painted in the manner of panel paintings and are characterized by their richness of figures and the uniform, not extremely colorful coloring. Occasionally depictions of saints are supplemented by suitable emblems .

Giorgioli's frescoes fit in perfectly with the architecture and stucco of the respective church and thus form part of a Baroque total work of art. The highlights of his work include the ceiling frescoes in the former Benedictine monastery churches of Pfäfers (canton of St. Gallen, 1692), Muri (canton of Aargau, 1696/97), Rheinau (canton of Zurich, 1708/09) and St. Trudpert in the Münstertal (district of Breisgau- Black Forest, 1710 and 1716–1722). In total, works at 45 locations in Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Poland are documented.

literature

Laura Damiani Cabrini: Francesco Antonio Giorgioli. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . October 13, 2004 , accessed January 25, 2020 .
Elisabeth Keller-Schweizer: Francesco Antonio Giorgioli. A contribution to the history of Swiss baroque painting . Atlantis, Zurich 1972, ISBN 3-7611-0399-9
Art guide through Switzerland . 3 volumes. Society for Swiss Art History (GSK), Bern 2005–2006, ISBN 978-3-906131-95-5 / ISBN 978-3-906131-96-2 / ISBN 978-3-906131-97-9
Giovanni Piffaretti: Francesco Antonio Giorgioli. Pittore di Meride 1655-1725. Armando Dadò Editore , Locarno 1998, ISBN 88-86315-90-2

Web links

Commons : Francesco Antonio Giorgioli - collection of images, videos and audio files

Ursula Stevens: Francesco Antonio Giorgioli's biography on tessinerkuenstler-ineuropa.ch/deu/

Individual evidence

^ Giorgioli, Francesco Antonio . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 85 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

personal data
SURNAME	Giorgioli, Francesco Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Giorgioli, Antonio Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1655
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meride
DATE OF DEATH	1725
Place of death	Meride

[1] Giorgioli, Francesco Antonio . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 14 : Giddens-Gress . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1921, p. 85 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).