- Francesco Trevisani
Francesco Trevisani (
April 9 1656 -July 30 1746 ) was an Italian painter, active in the period called either earlyRococo or lateBaroque ("barochetto")Biography
Born in
Capodistria (modernKoper , then part of theRepublic of Venice ), he was the son of Antonio Trevisani, an architect, by whom he was instructed in the first rudiments of design. He then studied inVenice underAntonio Zanchi . He moved toRome , where he remained until his death, in 1678. His brother,Angelo Trevisani remained a prominent painter in Venice.In Rome, he was supported by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni. He was strongly influenced by
Carlo Maratta , as it is manifest in his masterpiece, the frescoes inSan Silvestro in Capite (1695-1696). In this commission, he worked alongsideGiuseppe Chiari andLudovico Gimignani . In Rome, he was favored with the patronage of CardinalChigi . Chigi employed him in several considerable works, and recommended him to the protection ofPope Clement XI , who not only commissioned him to paint one of the Prophets inSan Giovanni Laterano , but engaged him to decorate the cupola of the cathedral inUrbino . There he represented, in fresco, allegories of the four Quarters of the World, in which he displayed much invention and ingenuity. He was employed by the Duke ofModena , in copying the works of Correggio, Parmigianino, and also painted in Brunswick,Madrid , Munich, Stockholm, andVienna .He also shows Maratta's influence in the cartoons for baptismal chapel in
St. Peter's Basilica , in the oval with "Prophet Baruch" inSan Giovanni in Laterano , and in the "Death of St. Joseph" inSant'Ignazio . Trevisani painted scense from the "Life of the Blessed Lucy of Narni" in the church ofNarni (1714-15).He became a member of the
Academy of Arcadia in 1712. Among his pupils wereFrancesco Civalli Perugino , Cav. Lodovico Mazzanti, and Giovanni Batista Bruglii.Trevisani died in Rome in 1746.
References
*cite book|first=F.R.|last=Di Federico|title=Francesco Trevisani: Eighteenth-Century Painter in Rome|location=Washington DC|year=1977
*"Review of Francesco Trevisani: Eighteenth-Century Painter in Rome". Francis H. Dowley. The Art Bulletin (1979) p146-151.
*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume II L-Z)| editor = Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 585| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1| authorlink=
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