Francesco Monti (1685 – 14 April 1768) was an Italian painter of the late

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

. ''Death of St Anne'', originally in church of San Zeno al Foro, Brescia. Pietà di San Zeno

Biography

Born in Bologna, he studied art for three years with

Sigismondo Caula Sigismondo Caula (1637–1724) was an Italian painter of the Baroque style. Caula was born in Modena, where he was the pupil of Jean Boulanger, but finished his studies at Venice, from the works of Titian and Tintoretto Tintoretto ( , , ; bor ...

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, and then starting in 1701 with Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna. His neo- Mannerist style was influenced by Donato Creti, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, and Parmigianino. A prolific painter, he worked in oil and in

fresco Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...

. His first known work, dating from 1713, is a ''Pentecost'' for the

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. Other early works include a ''Rape of the Sabines'' for Count Ranuzzi and a ''Triumph of Mordecai'' for the court at Turin. Around this time, he was commissioned, along with other painters, to provide decorations for the Duke of Richmond's Goodwood Palace. He also executed commissions for a number of churches in Bolognia. Within a few years, he was admitted to the prestigious

Accademia Clementina The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Acc ...

. In 1738, he moved to Brescia, where he painted frescoes on the vault of the church of Santa Maria della Pace. He received other commissions from regional churches in San Zeno, Capo di Ponte,

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, and elsewhere. From 1740 onwards, he was also active in the area of

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. Among his pupils were

Gaetano Sabadini Gaetano Sabatini (1703–1734; or 1731), also known as ''il Mutarolo'' (or ''Il Mutolo'') due to his deaf-mutism, was an Italian draftsman and Baroque painter. Born in Bologna to a domestic worker for the aristocratic Marescalchi family, he pe ...

, his daughter

Eleonora Monti Eleonora Monti (July 20, 1727 – after 1760) was an 18th-century Italian artist best known as a portraitist. She spent much of her career in the city of Brescia, Italy, but is also affiliated with the city of Bologna. She was made an honorary me ...

, and the priest Antonio Montelatici. He died in Brescia.

References

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