Anastasio Fontebuoni
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Anastasio Fontebuoni was an Italian Baroque painter, native of Florence
. Fontebuoni proved to be one of the Florentine painters are more open to the influence of Caravaggio
's naturalism. Fontebuoni was educated in the school of Domenico Passignano
. According to Giovanni Baglioni
, he visited Rome in the pontificate of Paul V, where he painted some pictures for the churches. His work flourished in Rome from 1600 to 1620 but this promising artist died young in Florence in 1626.
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
. Fontebuoni proved to be one of the Florentine painters are more open to the influence of Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...
's naturalism. Fontebuoni was educated in the school of Domenico Passignano
Domenico Passignano
Domenico Passignano , born Cresti or Crespi, was an Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Contra-Maniera style that emerged in Florence towards the end of the 16th century.- Biography :...
. According to Giovanni Baglioni
Artists in biographies by Giovanni Baglione
Le Vite de’ Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Intagliatori dal Pontificato di Gregorio XII del 1572. fino a’ tempi de Papa Urbano VIII. nel 1642. is an art history book by Giovanni Baglione, first published in 1642...
, he visited Rome in the pontificate of Paul V, where he painted some pictures for the churches. His work flourished in Rome from 1600 to 1620 but this promising artist died young in Florence in 1626.
Major works
- San Giovanni dei FiorentiniSan Giovanni dei FiorentiniSan Giovanni dei Fiorentini, St John of the Florentines, is a church in the Ponte rione or district of Rome. Dedicated to St John the Baptist, the protector of Florence, the new church for the Florentine community in Rome was started in the 16th century and completed in early eighteenth and is the...
: two paintings of the Birth of the Virgin and the Death of the Virgin, which are considered his best works. - Santa PriscaSanta PriscaSanta Prisca is a basilica church in Rome, devoted to Saint Prisca, a 1st century martyr, on the Aventine hill. It was built in the 4th or 5th century over a temple of Mithras, and is recorded as the Titulus Priscae in the acts of the 499 synod....
: frescoes depicting the Saints and angels with the instruments of passion - Santa BalbinaSanta BalbinaSanta Balbina is a basilica church in Rome, devoted to St. Balbina. It was built in the 4th century over the house of consul Lucius Fabius Cilo on the Aventine Hill, behind the Baths of Caracalla. Possibly the ancient Titulus Tigridae, the basilica was consecrated by Pope Gregory I.The adjoining...
: frescoes of the triumphal arch depicting Saint Paul and Saint Peter. Frescoes in the apse representing Saint Balbina between other martyrs. - Santa Lucia in Selci: the Annunciation
- San Giacomo degli Spagnoli: frescoes of the vault