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Francesco Fontebasso was a student of Sebastiano Ricci and was later influenced by and associated with Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. As a teenager, he studied in Rome and Bologna. His work from the 1730s shares many similarities with his teacher, but his mature paintings incorporated a lighter palette akin to Tiepolo. Ricci's influence can still be seen in the compositions of Fontebasso's history paintings, such as Family of Darius before Alexander (1750, 1964.110). Fontebasso's light-filled, decorative Venetian Rococo style is marked by pastel colors, free brushwork, and ornamental arabesques executed with a profusion of detail.
He is credited with taking the style of the Venetian school to Saint Petersburg in 1761 when he was commissioned by Catherine II, Empress of Russia to paint interior decorations at the Imperial Palace. After returning to Venice in 1768, he was made President of the Accademia Veneziana, the school he helped found 13 years earlier.
Adapted from
- P.F.R., DMA research document, n.d., Education files.
- "European Artist Biographies," DMA research document, n.d., Education files.
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General Description
Francesco Fontebasso was a student of Sebastiano Ricci and was later influenced by and associated with Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. As a teenager, he studied in Rome and Bologna. His work from the 1730s shares many similarities with his teacher, but his mature paintings incorporated a lighter palette akin to Tiepolo. Ricci's influence can still be seen in the compositions of Fontebasso's history paintings, such as Family of Darius before Alexander (1750, 1964.110). Fontebasso's light-filled, decorative Venetian Rococo style is marked by pastel colors, free brushwork, and ornamental arabesques executed with a profusion of detail.
He is credited with taking the style of the Venetian school to Saint Petersburg in 1761 when he was commissioned by Catherine II, Empress of Russia to paint interior decorations at the Imperial Palace. After returning to Venice in 1768, he was made President of the Accademia Veneziana, the school he helped found 13 years earlier.
Adapted from
- P.F.R., DMA research document, n.d., Education files.
- "European Artist Biographies," DMA research document, n.d., Education files.
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This note was previously tagged #routed (and possibly !Routed_Feb15). I am removing those tags and replacing with #draft so that this note proceeds to GDocs for routing and is harvested to Brain. (EAS, 12/22/2016)
Removed TMS tag for 1964.110
Need to review the TMS constituent record to verify if life dates and geography x-refs have been added. This note was completed prior to the establishment of common constituent data procedures.
- Add artist geographies- born Venice
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