Guido Fontana
Illustration — Tin-glazed maiolica plate with Leda and the Swan Guido Fontana (1490 – 1576) was an Italian maiolica maker and the father of Orazio Fontana.
Also recorded as Guido Durantino · Guido da Castello Durante
Guido Fontana
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- Born
- 1490. · Urbania.
- Died
- 1576. · Urbino.
- Nationality
- Duchy of Urbino.
- Occupation
- painter, ceramicist and potter.
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Illustration — Tin-glazed maiolica plate with Leda and the Swan Guido Fontana (1490 – 1576) was an Italian maiolica maker and the father of Orazio Fontana.
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Fontana was born in 1490 in Castel Durante. He moved to Urbino, where set up shop there when he called himself Fontana. He bought a house with a potter's oven in Borgo di S. Paolo, Urbino. Fontana designed a maiolica service for Anne de Montmorency in 1535. A candlestick from the service is at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Fontana changed his surname to Durantino in 1553. He died in 1576 in Urbino.
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1490
Guido Fontana born at Urbania.
1576
Guido Fontana died at Urbino.
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