Francesco Fontebasso
Illustration — The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1749). • Illustration — Allegory of Faith (v.1750) San Zanipolo Venice Francesco Fontebasso (4 October 1707 – 31 May 1769) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice. He first apprenticed with Sebastiano Ricci, but was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. In 1761, Fontebasso visited Saint Petersburg and produced ceiling paintings and decorations for the Winter Palace.
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Francesco Fontebasso
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- Born
- 1707 · Venice.
- Died
- 1769 · Venice.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- painter · draftsperson · engraver
- Fields
- visual arts · painting
- Known for
- The Virgin Appearing to St. Jerome · Girl Eating from a Bowl
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (1749). • Illustration — Allegory of Faith (v.1750) San Zanipolo Venice Francesco Fontebasso (4 October 1707 – 31 May 1769) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice. He first apprenticed with Sebastiano Ricci, but was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. In 1761, Fontebasso visited Saint Petersburg and produced ceiling paintings and decorations for the Winter Palace.
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Fontebasso returned to Venice in 1768. He helped decorate a chapel in San Francesco della Vigna. He died in Venice in 1769. He is represented in collections in e.g. Kadriorg Palace (part of the Art Museum of Estonia) in Tallinn, Estonia. The Prado Museum in Spain owns a painting The Bridegroom and the foolish Virgins along with 9 drawings.
The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is visual arts and painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice and Saint Petersburg. Works named in the authority record are The Virgin Appearing to St. Work by Francesco Fontebasso is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Museo del Prado, Art Institute of Chicago, Nationalmuseum and Auckland Art Gallery.
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1707
Francesco Fontebasso was born in 1707 at Venice.
1769
Francesco Fontebasso died in 1769 at Venice.
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- 1.Patrizia Scafella. 48.
- 2.Adriano Mariuz, Giuseppe Pavanello: Die Innendekorationen der venezianischen Paläste, in: Giandomenico Romanelli (Hrsg.): Venedig – Kunst und Architektur, Bd. 2, Könemann, Köln, 1997, S. 582–639, hier: S. 633
- 3.Rainer Michaelis, Dokumentation der Verluste Band I – Gemäldegalerie, S. 31
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