Francesco Fontebasso
1707 – 1769
Italian painter, printmaker and draughtsman, the last outstanding representative of Italian monumental painting. He was one of the most prolific and well-known followers of Sebastiano Ricci, with whom he had his earliest training, and particularly of Giambattista Tiepolo. By the end of the 1720s he had studied in Rome (where he is documented in 1728) and Bologna; the influence of the forthright tenebrism of the Bolognese school is evident in his first independent works, such as the Adoration of the Shepherds (c.
24 artworks in collection
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17451762
Museum
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Private collection1749
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine with St Therese
Private collection
Assumption of the Virgin
Private collection