Francesco Salvatore Fontebasso ( Italian: Francesco Salvatore Fontebasso ; October 4, 1707 - May 31, 1769) - Italian late Baroque painter, one of the leading representatives of Venetian painting during the Rococo period, professor of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, master of historical, ceiling painting.
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Biography
Born in Venice. He became a student of Sebastiano Ricci , but a significant influence on Francesco Fontebasso was made by his contemporary Giovanni Battista Tiepolo . In the 1730s, he visited Bologna and Rome, where he met the works of the masters of the Bologna and Roman schools, respectively [3] . For some time he worked in Trento . Returning to Veneto, he became a conductor of the ideas of neoclassicism . From 1755 he taught at the Venice Academy of Arts [4] . In the 1750s, he made a number of paintings by the Venetian Palazzo, thanks to which he became widely known. In 1760, Francesco Fontebasso was invited to St. Petersburg to paint the ceiling of the Winter Palace . In 1762, on the recommendation of Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov , he became a teacher of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in the class of historical painting. At the end of his life he returned to Venice. There is the opposite unconfirmed version of his death in Russia.
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Hercules and Apollo
Antioch and Stratonica
Ecstasy of Saint Theresa
Virgin Mary is to saint Jerome
Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Darius's family before Alexander
Shepherd worship
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Literature
- State Russian Museum: Painting of the XVIII century: Catalog. Volume 1. - SPb .: Palace Editions, 1998. - p. 168.
- Fontebasso Francesco / T. Yu. Oblitsova // The Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 t.] / Ch. ed. Yu. S. Osipov . - M .: The Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.