Sebastiano Mazzoni
Sebastiano Mazzoni (* 1611 in Florence , † April 22, 1678 in Venice ) was an Italian Baroque painter.
He was apprenticed at Baccio del Bianco in Florence and was there from 1638 a member of the Accademia del Disegno . Mazzoni came to Venice in 1648, where he stayed for the rest of his life. After Temanza ( Zibaldone ) he fled Florence because he had written satires on a person of high standing. In Venice he was influenced by the works of Bernardo Strozzi and other Venetian painters, which led to a more fluid style of painting.
He had a very independent style, which sometimes satirically covered the baroque imagery into the grotesque. This later brought him disadvantages in Venice (where contemporary painters such as Pietro della Vecchia and Francesco Maffei were valued more despite similar fantastic traits).
Mazzoni was also a poet (as he describes himself in a 1661 poem as a poet, painter and two-time madman ). There are also many architectural drawings of buildings in Venice by him.
Andrea Celesti and Sebastiano Ricci were among his students .
Annunciation, around 1650, Venice
Saint Benedict presents Pasqualino Daneli to the Virgin, San Beneto, Venice
literature
- L. Vertova, article by Sebastiano Mazzoni in Kindler's Malereilexikon, dtv 1982
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ After Temani he was a pupil of Cristofano Allori
- ↑ Vertova, Kindler's Malereilexikon
- ↑ Marco Boschini mentions him in 1644 in his Ricche Miniere only as the painter of an altarpiece that would have been removed from the Church of San Luca because of its ugliness
- ↑ Vertova, Kindler's Malereilexikon. He also mentions Giovanni Antonio Fumiani and Niccolò Bambini as students
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mazzoni, Sebastiano |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1611 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Florence |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1678 |
| Place of death | Venice |