Francesco fontebasso biography
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Francesco FONTEBASSO
Venice 1707 - Venice 1769
Biography
A pupil of Sebastiano Ricci, Francesco Fontebasso spent a brief period of study in Rome before returning to his native Venice, where he produced a series of engravings after Ricci’s paintings. He established his career in Venice, painting several altarpieces for local churches, and was soon in some demand as a fresco painter. In 1734 he decorated the ceiling of the church of the Gesuiti in Venice, and two years later painted a fresco cycle for the church of Santa Maria Annunziata in Trent. Fontebasso worked for members of the Venetian aristocracy such as the Barbarigo family, for whom he painted decorative fresco cycles in the Palazzo Duodo and the Palazzo Barbarigo.
Apart from his success as a fresco painter, Fontebasso made a particular specialty of small-scale devotional easel pictures and modelli, and also worked as an engraver and a designer of book illustrations. From 1756 onwards he was a professor at the Acc
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Francesco Fontebasso
Francesco Fontebasso received his training in the kurs of Sebastiano Ricci, who together with Giambattista Tiepolo exercised a great influence on his art. To complete his study, he proceeded to Rome and Bologna in the late 1720s. In 1732 he worked in Udine, where he probably saw Tiepolo's frescoes in the Cathedral and the Archbishop's Palace. In 1734 Fontebasso painted the ceiling frescoes in the Jesuit Church in Venice, and in 1736 painted the Annunziata church in Trento (destroyed). He produced his most important frescoes in Venice's Palazzo Duodo (1743-1752) and Palazzo Barbarigo (1745). At this same time, he painted the ceiling fresco in the Palazzo Bernardi. In 1755 he was a founding member - with Gaspare Diziani - of Venice's Academy, of which he served as president in 1768. For the bishop of Trento, in 1759 he executed a series of paintings for the Castello del Buonconsiglio, and in 1761 he was invited to St Petersburg bygd Catherine II to decorate the
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Francesco Fontebasso
Italian painter (1707–1769)
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. 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.[1]
The Prado Museum in Spain owns a painting The Bridegroom and the foolish Virgins along with 9 drawings.[2]