Pozzi (artist family from Rome)

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The most important representatives of the Pozzi family are four sons of an innkeeper who made careers as artists: Stefano, Rocco, Andrea and Giuseppe.

Stefano

Stefano Pozzi (born November 9, 1699 [1707?] In Rome , † June 11, 1768 in Rome) was a painter and draftsman who created the majority of his work in Rome. Occasionally he worked with his brother Rocco.

Stefano learned his craft from two important students of Carlo Maratta , namely first from Andrea Procaccini , and after he went to Spain in 1720, from Agostino Masucci.

In 1732 he was accepted into the artist community Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon , of which he became director in 1739. In 1736 he was appointed to the Accademia di San Luca art academy . He mainly worked for the church, for example for a chapel of the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore a picture of the blessed Niccolò Albergati , around 1736 eight cartouches between windows of the church of San Silvestro al Quirinale , pictures [frescoes?] In the refectory of the Chiesa di San Gregorio Nazianeno , 1742 death of St. Joseph for a chapel in the church of Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano . For the church of Sant'Apollinare alle Terme, which was remodeled by Ferdinando Fuga in 1748, the ceiling fresco Sant'Apollinare in Gloria. . Frescoes in the sacristy of the Chiesa del Gesù, Perugia .

In 1744 he was called to Naples by Cardinal Giuseppe Spinelli to fresco the apse of the Cathedral of San Gennaro , which had just been renovated by Paolo Posi . Get are Saints Januarius and Agrippino Driving expel the Saracens (right) and choir of angels (bubble). Then began a collaboration with Luigi Vanvitelli : 1744 frescoes for the monastery Montemorcino in Perugia, which Vanvitelli built (now Palazzo dell'Università). An Annunciation is received.

In Rome, a fresco was created for the church of Santa Francesca Romana, The Blessed Bernardino Tolomei Among the Plague Sufferers , for the library of the Palazzo Sciarra-Colonna designed by Vanvitelli, a series of allegories of the signs of the zodiac, and the decoration of the Hall of Mirrors (Saletto degli Specchi) in the Palazzo Doria- Pamphilj .

Stefano Pozzi's students included the architect Giacomo Quarenghi and the painter Antonio Cavallucci . The picture Madonna among angels and clouds has recently been given to him by Dr. Attributed to Stella Rudolph.

Rocco

Rocco (1701–1774 [?; Also: "known around 1750; † around 1780"]) was a painter and was court engraver of the King of Naples. Many of his coppers are in the possession of the Museo Florentino , in addition, he created a series on the antiquities of Herculaneum , which was published in Naples.

Andrea

Giuseppe

Also belong to the family

  • Francesco Pozzi (1750–1805) , from Rome, engraver, identified as Rocco's nephew. Along with Coppa and Perini , he engraved some of the views of the Galleria Clementina of the Vatican . Also a portrait of Pope Pius VI. is one of his works.
  • Andrea Pozzi (painter) (1778– ??), from Rome, painter. Well-known works are: Madonna and Saints , painted for the city of Camerino . 1820: Martyrdom of St. Stephen in a side chapel of Santa Maria Rotundo , Rome. Andrea Pozzi was chairman of the Accademia di San Luca for many years .

literature

  • Filippo Titi, Descrizione delle Pitture, Sculpure e Architetture esposte in Roma ... (Rome 1763)
  • Michael Bryan: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical . Ed .: Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves. Volume II LZ. George Bell and Sons, Covent Garden, London 1889, p. 317 ( Google Book ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Together they created, for example, the frontispiece drawn by Stefano for Francesco Bianchini's work on astronomy Hesperi et Phosphori nova phaenomena sive observationes circa planetam Veneris, Rome 1728.
  2. ↑ Lit. Titi, 1763
  3. ^ Chris Nyborg: Sant'Apollinare alle Terme. ( Memento of January 8, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Lit. Titi 1763.
  4. ↑ http://www.interviu.it/turismo/decumani/duomo.htm (Italian)
  5. ↑ Riccardo Cigola, "Palazzo Doria Pamphilj" .
  6. ↑ Example: Giambattista Nolli's detailed and richly decorated city ​​map of Rome, 1748.
  7. ↑ Lit. Bryan, p. 317