Francesco Tironi

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Francesco Tironi (* around 1745 , † around 1797 ) was a Venetian vedutist of the second half of the 18th century.

Life

Very little is known about the life of Tironis. Possibly he came from a family in Friuli . Only Giannantonio Moschini (1773-1840), who in 1806 described Tironi's works on the islands of the Venetian lagoon , noted that he, too young, had died only a few years earlier. After that, Tironi is not mentioned again until 1840, namely by Filippo De Boni, who determines the year of his death around 1800. Hermann Voss made the almost forgotten painter better known again when he published some of his vedute in book form in 1927-28. Two of these works were at von Liphart's in Munich at the time and were signed “FT”. Marina Stefani Mantovanelli dated Tironi's death on February 28, 1797. According to the necrology she discovered , the painter died at the age of 52.

Various vedute are attributed to Tironi, such as that of the Riva degli Schiavoni , the view of a crowd in front of San Zanipolo , then a vedute of the Isola Santa Maria della Grazia and a painting of the meeting of Pope Pius VI. with the Doge on San Giorgio in Alga . He made a total of 24 vedutas of the inhabited islands in the lagoon.

literature

  • Lino Moretto: Francesco Tironi , in: Giuseppe Pavanello (Ed.): Canaletto. Venezia ei suoi splendori , Marsilio, 2008, p. 206 f.
  • Dario Succi: Francesco Tironi ultimo vedutista del Settecento veneziano , Edizioni della Laguna, 2004.

Web links

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

Remarks

  1. ^ Giannantonio Moschini: Della letteratura veneziana del secolo XVIII fino a 'nostri giorni , Venice 1806.
  2. ↑ Filippo De Boni: Biografia degli artisti , Vol. 3, Venice 1840, p. 78.
  3. ^ Hermann Voss: Francesco Tironi. A forgotten Venetian vedute painter , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 61 (1927/28) 266-270.
  4. ^ Lino Moretto: Francesco Tironi , in: Giuseppe Pavanello (Ed.): Canaletto. Venezia ei suoi splendori , Marsilio, 2008, p. 207.
  5. ↑ Marina Stefani Mantovanelli: Arte Veneta , 1969, p. 253 f.
  6. ^ Tironi, Francesco , Drawings Online , The Morgan Library & Museum.
  7. ^ Giuseppe Delogu: Pittori veneti minori del settecento , Zanetti, 1930, p. 164.
personal data
SURNAME Tironi, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Venetian vedutist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1745
DATE OF DEATH around 1797