Tadeusz Kuntze (also Taddeo Kuntze or Taddeo Polacco) was the
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of the
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n painter Tadeusz Konicz
[ (3 October 1733 – 8 May 1793), who was active in ]Kraków
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, in Paris, in Spain and in Rome.[
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Life
Konicz was born in Grünberg, Silesia
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(now Zielona Góra
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, Poland) on 3 October 1733. He was raised in Kraków
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at the court of the Archbishop of Kraków, bishop, Andrzej Stanisław Załuski, who in 1747 sent him to Rome to study. From 1748 to 1752 he studied at the Académie de France, and later under Ludovico Mazzanti and at the newly established Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, scuola libera del nudo.[ He painted a number of works in Poland in 1754, including altarpieces of ''Adalbert of Prague, St Adalbert'' and of ''St Casimir'' in Kraków Cathedral, and the ''Fortuna, Fortune'' now in the National Museum, Warsaw. In 1756 he travelled to Paris, and in 1757 was again in Kraków at the court of Załuski. After Załuski's death in late 1758, Kuntze went to Spain. By 1766 he was again in Rome.][ Among his patrons there were the Borghese family, Borghese princes, for whom he worked at both Palazzo Borghese and Galleria Borghese, Villa Borghese, and Henry Benedict Stuart, then bishop of Frascati, for whom he executed frescoes in the Seminario Tuscolano and in the Palazzo Vescovile (the bishop's palace).][ He also worked on frescoes in the church of Santo Stanislao dei Polacchi.
Kuntze died in Rome on 8 May 1793.][
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Works
File:Kuntze-Konicz Fortune.jpg, ''Fortune'', oil on canvas: National Museum, Warsaw
File:Kuntze-Konicz Art.jpg, ''Art'', oil on canvas: National Museum, Warsaw
File:Kuntze Death of Priam.jpg, ''Death of Priam'', oil on canvas: Wawel Castle
References
Further reading
*"Inediti di Taddeo Kuntze" di Schleier E. in "Scritti di Storia dell'Arte in onore di Federico Zeri", Milano, 1984
External links
1733 births
1793 deaths
18th-century Polish–Lithuanian painters
18th-century male artists
Polish male painters
People from Zielona Góra
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