Tommaso Conca
Tommaso Conca , also Tommaso Maria Conca, (* December 22, 1734 in Gaeta ; † December 13, 1822 in Rome ) was an Italian painter on the threshold from the late Baroque to Roman classicism .
Life
He received his education from his uncle Sebastiano Conca , who, like himself, came from Gaeta. At first Tommaso emulated his uncle, but then dealt with the art of the Carracci.
Probably already in the “Academia del Nudo” of his uncle he met Anton Raphael Mengs , the important innovator of art and classicist painter, who had settled permanently in Rome from 1748 and through his friendship with the archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann with his antiquity reception new conception of art came. Tommaso Conca essentially followed this stylistic path and created a series of frescoes and panel paintings that reveal the classicist influence, especially towards the end of the 18th century.
From 1780 to 1786 he was mainly occupied with the painting of the casino in the Villa Borghese (Rome) . In 1786 he painted the ceiling of the Musesaal in the Museo Pio-Clementino . In 1789 this was followed by an order to fresco the dome and the side vaults of the cathedral of Città di Castello . In 1811 he was involved in the decoration of the Quirinal palace for Napoleon participated.
plant
- Villa Borghese (Rome) (Egyptian room): 8 friezes around Antony and Cleopatra and ceiling fresco: cycle around Cybele (1780)
- Villa Borghese, Rome (Silenic Room) fresco "Sacrifice of Bacchus"
- Vatican Museums , Sala della Frescoes: "Apollo and the Muses", Apollo and Marsyas and other scenes (1782–1787)
- Sant'Eustachio , Rome: Decoration of the Lady Chapel: "Flight into Egypt" and "Rest on the flight"
- Cathedral of Città di Castello : decoration of the dome and the side vaults, “Christ”, “Madonna and S. Floridus”, “Scenes from the life of S. Floridus and Crescentianus” as well as personified representations of virtues, church and religion.
- Museo Pio Clementino, Rome (Musensaal): scenes around Apollo, Marsyas, the seven wise men, Mercury Homer, Aeschylos and Pindar.
- Palazzo del Governo in Ascoli Piceno : fresco decoration
- Fine Art Museums of San Francisco : Allegorical Figure, Chalk and Watercolor
literature
- Tommaso Maria Conca. In: Edgar P. Bowron, Joseph J. Rishel (Eds.): Art in Rom in the Eighteenth Century. London, Merrill 2000, pp. 494–495 (catalog for the exhibition in Philadelphia and Houston).
- Friedrich Noack : Conca, Tommaso . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 288–289 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ). - (Different information about the year of death 1815).
- Olivier e Geneviève Michel: Conca, Tommaso. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Volume 27, 1982 ( treccani.it ).
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Conca, Tommaso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian classicism painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1734 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gaeta |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 13, 1822 |
| Place of death | Rome |