Francesco Sozzi

Francesco Sozzi (born October 26, 1732 in Palermo , † 1795 ibid) was an Italian late Baroque painter in Sicily .

Francesco Sozzi: “Four Seasons - Autumn” (1760), Palazzo Isnello, Palermo

Life

As the son and student of Olivio Sozzi and brother-in-law of Vito D'Anna , Francesco Sozzi was a member of a flourishing family business under the direction of his father. He continued the style of the late Baroque introduced by Olivio Sozzi to Palermo, which combines the Roman classicism of Sebastiano Conca with the Rococo of Corrado Giaquinto . In 1765, together with his father and Vito D'Anna, he painted the famous cycle of frescoes in the Assumption Chapel of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Ispica, in which Olivio Sozzi was killed on October 31 of the same year by falling from a scaffolding.

Francesco's son Agatino Sozzi (1765–1837) became known as a painter of miniature portraits and still lifes.

Works (selection)

• Chiesa di San Matteo al Cassaro (Palermo): frescoes "Allegorical female figures" (1754, together with Vito D'Anna )
• Palazzo Isnello (Palermo): Fresco Encyclopedia The Four Seasons (1760)
• Biblioteca di Palazzo Alliata di Pietratagliata (Palermo): Fresco “Allegory of Wisdom” (1762) and “The Divine Virtues of the Prince” (with Vito D'Anna)
• Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ( Ispica ): cycle of frescoes in the Assumption Chapel (1765, together with Olivio Sozzi and Vito D'Anna )
• Chiesa di Santa Chiara ( Catania ): Fresco "Triumph of Virtue" (1766)
• Chiesa di San Francesco (Catania): Dome fresco allegory of virtue
• Chiesa di San Francesco di Paola ( Militello in Val di Catania ): altarpieces of the saints "Francis of Assisi", "Clare" and "Jesus appears to the holy women Clare and Helena"
• Palazzo Arcivescovile ( Agrigento ): panel painting "Holy Bishops of Agrigento" (1777)
• Chiesa di Santa Caterina (Palermo) : Fresco "Madonna della Rosario" (1778)

literature

• Giuliano Briganti: La Pittura in Italia. Il Settecento . Electa, Milan 1990, ISBN 88-435-3279-0 (2 volumes. Riedizione accresciuta e aggiornata).
• Mariny Guttilla (Ed.): Il Settecento e il suo doppio. Rococò e Neoclassicismo, styles and tendencies europee nella Sicilia dei viceré . Kalós, Palermo 2008, ISBN 978-88-89224-67-0 .
• Citti Siracusano: La pittura del Settecento in Sicilia . De Luca Editore, Rome 1986, ISBN 88-7813-001-X , p. 434 .
• Giulia Sommariva: Palazzi nobiliari di Palermo . Flaccovio, Palermo 2004, ISBN 88-7758-598-6 .
• Francesco Sozzi . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 31 : Siemering – Stephens . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1937, p. 316 .
• Angheli Zalapi: Palaces in Sicily . Könemann, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8290-2117-8 , p. 92 .

Web links

• flickr.com