Francesco Fontebasso

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Young lady contemplating a work of art in a passe-partout

Francesco Fontebasso (born October 4, 1707 in Venice , † May 30, 1769 ibid) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque and Rococo .

Life

Fontebasso was initially an apprentice to Sebastiano Ricci and was strongly influenced by his contemporary Giovanni Battista Tiepolo . In 1761 Fontebasso visited Saint Petersburg and drew ceiling paintings and decorations for the Winter Palace . In 1768 Fontebasso went back to Venice. There he decorated a chapel in the church of San Francesco della Vigna and painted the fresco La Gloria del Paradiso in the Cathedral of Santa Maria in Colle of Montebelluna . In the chapel of Villa Manin there are two tempera pictures with scenes from the life of Adam and Eve.

Antonio Zucchi was his student.

The Berlin Gemäldegalerie found the painting Saint Francis of Padua , believed to have been destroyed, in German private ownership.

Ceilings, Francesco Fontebasso, Church dell'Angelo Raffaele, Venice

Works

  • The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (Il Sacrificio d'Ifigenia) ca.1749, private collection
  • Portrait of the ophthalmologist F.Tadini (Ritratto di F. Tadini) (1761), St. Petersburg
  • Young lady contemplating a work of art in a passe-partout
  • Jerome's Vision of the Virgin (La Vergine appare a S. Girolamo), (1740–1760), Louvre

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Michaelis, Documentation of Losses Volume I - Gemäldegalerie , p. 31
personal data
SURNAME Fontebasso, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1707
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1769
Place of death Venice