Francesco Fontebasso (4 October 1707 – 31 May 1769) was an Italian painter 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.
major works
The Virgin appears to St. Jerome (1740-1760), the Louvre Museum.
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, private collection.
Mystic Marriage of St. With St. Catherine Teresa, private collection.
Estassi S. Theresa, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
Portrait of F. Tadini, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
Portrait of Francis Zanca, Ca 'Rezzonico Museum of Eighteenth-Century Venice.
The Martyrdom of St. Catherine, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago.
Gathering of the Manna (1759), The Spa at Crystal, Trent.
Family of Darius before Alexander (1750), Dallas Museum of Art, Texas.
Assumption of the Virgin (1736), Church of Sant'Annunziata, Trent.
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints Martino and Bishop Carlo Borromeo (1762-1764), Altarpiece (Tolmezzo-Dome)
Sources
Getty biography
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