Artist
Francesco Fontebasso
Republic of Venice
Francesco Fontebasso is a Republic of Venice Baroque artist. 20 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Art.
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. The Prado Museum in Spain owns a painting The Bridegroom and the foolish Virgins along with 9 drawings.
Works by Francesco Fontebasso
Adoration of the Magi
The Last Supper
Papst Gregor I. und der Hl. Vitalis bitten die Madonna für die Seelen im Fegefeuer
The Adoration of the Shepherds![Apollo and Studies of the Artist's Own Hand [recto]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/francesco-fontebasso--apollo-and-studies-of-the-artist-s-own-hand-recto--ee93288e84456aea-w320.webp)
Apollo and Studies of the Artist's Own Hand [recto]![Head of a Woman and Studies of a Male Nude [verso]](https://artifactworldgallery.com/img/francesco-fontebasso--head-of-a-woman-and-studies-of-a-male-nude-verso--bba81b0c130c2863-w320.webp)
Head of a Woman and Studies of a Male Nude [verso]
Elegant Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace
Alexander the Great before the Corpse of Darius
Saint Gregoire I Delivering Souls from Purgatory
Apollo and Nymphs in a Landscape with a Bust of Pan
Pope Gregory the Great and Saint Vitale Interceding for the Souls in Purgatory
Nine Figures around a Herm of Pan
Six Nymphs and Two Cupids in a Landscape
Venus and Vulcan with Three Nymphs and Three Cupids
A Satyr with a Staff and Seven Other Figures
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Sofonisba (or Artemisia)
Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles
The Madonna and Child with Two Angels and Saints Scholastica, Benedict, Roch, Peter, Paul and Jerome
a) Study of a Man Kneeling, Looking Upward (recto); b) Studies of the Same Figure (verso)
Collections represented
- Elegant Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace
- Alexander the Great before the Corpse of Darius
- Saint Gregoire I Delivering Souls from Purgatory
- Apollo and Nymphs in a Landscape with a Bust of Pan
- Pope Gregory the Great and Saint Vitale Interceding for the Souls in Purgatory
- Nine Figures around a Herm of Pan
- Six Nymphs and Two Cupids in a Landscape
- Venus and Vulcan with Three Nymphs and Three Cupids
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