Taddeo Kuntze

Taddeo Kuntze studied at French Academy in Rome and Accademia di San Luca. Training under Ludovico Mazzanti is recorded. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome and Kraków. Positions recorded include court painter. Works named in the authority record are Christ before Pilate. Work by Taddeo Kuntze is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, National Museum in Warsaw, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne and Jagiellonian University Museum.

• Name — Tadeusz Kuntze • Birth Name — Tadeusz Konicz • Born — 3 October 1733 • Birthplace — Grünberg, Silesia • Died — 3 October 1733 • Place of death — Rome, Italy • Training — Académie de France, Rome Scuola libera del nudo, Rome

Konicz was born in Grünberg, Silesia (now Zielona Góra, Poland) on 3 October 1733. He was raised in Kraków at the court of the bishop, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, who in 1747 sent him to Rome to study. From 1748 to 1752 he studied at the Académie de France, and later under Ludovico Mazzanti and at the newly established scuola libera del nudo. He painted a number of works in Poland in 1754, including altarpieces of St Adalbert and of St Casimir in Kraków Cathedral, and the Fortune now in the National Museum, Warsaw. In 1756 he travelled to Paris, and in 1757 was again in Kraków at the court of Załuski. After Załuski's death in late 1758, Kuntze went to Spain. By 1766 he was again in Rome. Among his patrons there were the Borghese princes, for whom he worked at both Palazzo Borghese and Villa Borghese, and Henry Benedict Stuart, then bishop of Frascati, for whom he executed frescoes in the Seminario Tuscolano and in the Palazzo Vescovile (the bishop's palace). He also worked on frescoes in the church of Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi. Kuntze died in Rome on 8 May 1793.

• Illustration — Fortune, oil on canvas: National Museum, Warsaw • Illustration — Art, oil on canvas: National Museum, Warsaw • Illustration — Death of Priam, oil on canvas: Wawel Castle