Francesco Bernardini

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Francesco Bernardini (* around 1695 in Verona ; † March 16, 1762 in Mannheim ) was an Italian painter and set designer active in Germany .

Life

The style of Bernardini's paintings shows that he received his training in Veneto . His works are reminiscent of those of Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini , who could have been one of his teachers, and Antonio Bellucci . In 1719 he made the fresco on the ceiling of the chapter room of the Sankt Mang monastery in Füssen . With Fran. Bernardini painted at the age of 24 and signed the fresco on the ceiling in the library of Sankt Mang, which was created at the same time.

From 1722 Bernardini worked at the court of Elector Karl Theodor of the Palatinate and Bavaria in Mannheim, where he was confirmed as a history painter and set designer in 1743. In 1735 he was the godfather of the son of Paul Egell , the sculptor of the Mannheim court. In Mannheim none of his works survived, as everything was destroyed in the castle fire of 1795 and at the latest in World War II . His wife died on April 1, 1741 in Mannheim, but he remarried in the same city.

From 1728 to 1730 he painted the ceiling of the nave in Hildesheim Cathedral , which was completely destroyed in the Second World War. From 1730 to 1733 he painted the decoration in Aachen Cathedral , which was destroyed at the end of the 19th century when the interior was redesigned. In 1748 he also provided pictures for the hall of the Aachen town hall, which were destroyed when the intermediate walls were torn down for the construction of the great imperial hall in 1840. According to Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen, in 1736 he painted the stairwell and the entrance of the Palais Thurn und Taxis in Frankfurt am Main, which were also destroyed in the Second World War. Hüsgen describes it, with the words Bernardini painted the stairs and forecourt al fresco along with the magnificent altar leaf in the chapel in oil . The altarpiece, which depicts Zacharias and Elisabeth's visit to the Holy Family with the Johannesknaben , and two over- portals have been in the residence's private chapel since 1892, the year the Thurn and Taxis family finally moved to Regensburg.

One of his altarpieces shows the beheading of St. Catherine (signed in 1750), it is in the parish church of Kettenis ( Eupen ) in eastern Belgium. The client was probably the Aachen builder Johann Joseph Couven . He also painted a fresco and two now lost paintings for the church of Simmern in the Hunsrück. The fresco was poorly restored in 1950 and lost its original character. His last work was intended for the main altar of the Capuchin Church in Mannheim and was dated 1760. It is now in the parish church of Sankt Afra in Neckargerach in North Baden.

  • Ceiling fresco in the St. Mang chapter house

  • Ceiling fresco in the monastery library of St. Mang

  • Fresco The new church of St. Mang in the parish church of St. Mang, Füssen

  • Palais Thurn und Taxis stairwell ceiling painting

  • Neckargerach high altar picture, originally from the Mannheim Capuchin Church

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heribert Reiners : Die Kunstdenkmäler von Eupen-Malmedy , Düsseldorf 1935, p. 139.
  2. ^ Bernhard Heeren: Yearbook Geschichtliches Eupen Volume XVII. 1983, pp. 123-133
  3. ↑ Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen: Artistisches Magazin: Containing the life and lists of works by local and other artists .... p. 611 (1790)
  4. ^ Ludwig Döry: Entry in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 9 (1967)
personal data
SURNAME Bernardini, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter and set designer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1695
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1762
Place of death Mannheim