Francesco Pavona

Pastel painting in Wörlitz Castle: Cupid comforts the wounded Venus

Friedrich Margrave of Brandenburg-Culmbach-Bayreuth with the Order of the Elephants and the Order of St. John, 1759

Francesco Pavona (* around 1695 in Udine , † around 1777 in Venice ) was an Italian painter of the Venetian School of the Baroque . Pavona is known as an oil painter , but even more as a pastel painter . In addition to large formats, he also created high quality portraits.

Life

Pavona came from Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia , first learned from Giacomo Carneo ( Antonio Carneo's father ), then from Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole and Marcantonio Franceschini in Bologna and then in Milan . There he was a guest of the well-known painter Carlo Carlone , with whom he had a long friendship. During a stay of the pastel painter Rosalba Carriera in the Palazzo Lantieri in Gorizia in 1730 Pavona was her student; Several holy images from his hand have been preserved there. In the Pinakothek of the Görzer Provincial Museums (Musei Provinciali) in the former Palazzo Attems- Petzenstein , further paintings by Pavona can be seen today. The depiction of a "Rosary Madonna" (Madonna del Rosario) in the parish church of S. Martino in Bertiolo near Udine also dates from 1730 . In 1737 he was so well known that the art collector Francesco Maria Niccolo Gabburri acquired a self-portrait of Pavona. Later Pavona went to Genoa , Spain, Portugal (Lisbon 1735), Sweden, Denmark and other countries. as well as to Germany, where he worked at various courts. In Germany, supported by the philosophical writer, art critic and dealer Francesco Algarotti , he worked for 14 years at the Saxon court in Dresden from 1745 under the elector Friedrich August II, known as the patron of the arts , married and started a family. In 1759 he traveled to Bayreuth , probably mediated by Algarotti, to make several portraits of Margrave Friedrich and to buy some works (including by Pompeo Batoni and Anton Raphael Mengs ) from the collection of Margravine Wilhelmine's paintings . Another of the paintings by Pavona is - as part of the original furnishings - in Wörlitz Castle near Dessau. Later Pavona went back to Bologna for a few years. From there he moved to Venice in the early 1760s, where he was elected to the Painting and Drawing Academy ( Accademia di Pittura e Disegno ) in 1763 , with ten to eight votes preferred to Canaletto .

literature

• Pavona, Francesco . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 322 .
• Peter O. Krückmann: Francesco Pavona a Bayreuth: un percorso veneziano verso il neoclassicismo. In: Per l'arte. Monfalcone (Gorizia), 2/2001, pp. 505-508.
• Thomas Liebsch: Il soggiorno di Francesco Pavona a Dresda e la pittura a pastello della metà del secolo XVIII alla corte sassone. In: Memorie storiche forogiuliese. Volume 84, Udine 2004, pp. 117-140.
• Lidia Da Lio: Francesco Pavona: note per l'aggiornamento del suo catalogo. In: Barok na Goriškem. Goriški muzej Kromberk, Nova Gorica 2006, p. 421 ff.
• Lidia Da Lio: Francesco Pavona: pittore del Settecento in Friuli. In: Accademia di Belle Arti (ed.): Quaderni dell'Accademia. 4/2000, no. 9, pp. 26-31.
• Giuseppe Bergamini: Pitture chiesastiche di Francesco Pavona. In: Omaggio secondo all'arte veneta nel ricordo di Rudolfo Pallucchini (= Arte documento. 14), Edizioni della Laguna, Monfalcone 2000, pp. 166–171.
• Mercedes Precerutti Garberi: Profilo di Francesco Pavona. In: Commentari. 13/1962, pp. 128-144.

Web links

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

• Pavona, Francesco dizionariobiograficodeifriulani.it

Individual evidence

1. ^ According to Deutsche Fotothek : 1695 or 1692 or 1685 deutschefotothek.de ;
   according to Petra Suchy: Carlo Innozenzo Carlone in Lower Austria. Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, Art History, with Monika Dachs-Nickel, 2008: 1698;
   according to Artnet 1695 artnet.de
2. ^ According to Deutsche Fotothek : 1777 or 1773 deutschefotothek.de
3. ↑ Amalia Barigozzi Brini, Klára Garas: Carlo Innocenzo Carloni. Milan 1967, p. 18;
   Giuseppe Bergamini: Giulio Quaglio. Udine 1994, p. 36.
4. ^ Hermann K. Stützer : The jewel on the Isonzo. In: Europagesellschaft (ed.): Europages. Issue 2, November 2007, pp. 4-7.
5. ↑ Website for Palace Attems-Petzenstein  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Website of the Commune di Bertiolo ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Sweden and Denmark according to Johann Dominik Fiorillo : History of the drawing arts. Volume 2, Göttingen 1801, p. 190.
8. ^ Friedrich Hermann Hofmann: Bayreuth and its art monuments . United Art Institutions, Munich 1902, p. 78 and 80 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
9. ↑ 65 Amor comforts the wounded Venus , Kulturstiftung DessauWörlitz.
10. ↑ Biographical information, unless otherwise stated, based on Luigi Lanzi : History of Painting in Italy. Volume 3, p. 155, Leipzig, 1833.
    Neil Jeffares: Dictionary of pastellists before 1800. ( pastellists.com PDF; 1.7 MB), as of June 27, 2009.