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Marcantonio Franceschini (Italian pronunciation: [markanˈtɔːnjo frantʃeˈskiːni]; 1648 24 December 1729) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in his native Bologna. He was the father and teacher of Giacomo Franceschini.[1]

Main altar, Visitation by Marcantonio Franceschini, Chiesa della Visitazione in Salò.
Main altar, Visitation by Marcantonio Franceschini, Chiesa della Visitazione in Salò.

Biography


He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani, with whom he worked on the frescoes in the Palazzo del Giardino in Parma (167881). He worked closely for many years with his brother-in-law, Luigi Quaini, who also was the cousin of Cignani.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria, circa 1700, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Christ and the Woman of Samaria, circa 1700, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Franceschini had a long career painting canvases on religious and mythological subjects for patrons throughout Europe. Franceschini decorated some ceilings in the Palazzo Ranuzzi[2] (1680) and the Palazzo Marescotti Brazzetti (1682) in Bologna. He helped paint in the tribune at church of San Bartolomeo Porta Ravegnana (1690). Franceschini frescoed the ceiling of the Sala d'Onore ("Hall of Honor") in the Ducal Palace of Modena, commissioned in 1696 for the marriage of Rinaldo d'Este to Princess Charlotte Felicity of Brunswick. He painted the altarpiece in the Cathedral of Finale Ligure and the canvas of San Carlo in the church of the same name in Modena.

His massive program of historical and mythological scenes in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio of the Palazzo Ducale of Genoa (1701–1704) were destroyed by a fire in 1777. These had been completed with the help of Tommaso Aldrovandini, Quaini, and Antonio Meloni. In addition, his decorations of the pendentives and lunettes of the Piacenza Cathedral were removed in the late 19th century. He decorated the church of Corpus Domini (1688–1694) in Bologna.[3]

He painted 26 canvases of the Seductions and Loves of the Diana and Venus (1692-1700) for the Viennese palace (now Liechtenstein Museum) of Prince Johann Adam I of Liechtenstein. He also served as a buyer for the art-patron Prince.

In Genoa, he also painted for the palaces Spinola and the Palazzo Pallavicini (now Podestà) (1715) of Genoa. The latter had five large canvases of the history of Diana.

Canvases depicting The Four Seasons (1716) are now found in the Pinacoteca di Bologna. There are two canvases of the Story of Rachel in the Pinacoteca B.P.E.R.

He painted the "cartoons" used to make the mosaic decoration of the Cappella del Coro in St. Peter's Basilica. Knighted by Pope Clement XI, he was founding a member and a subsequent director of the Clementine Academy in Bologna.

His paintings have an academic and idealist strain, even for a member of the Bolognese School of Painting. The sparse figures are severely arranged and often porcelain in features. He worked with a younger colleague, Donato Creti. His style is often classified as Barochetto, a mixture of baroque and rococo; but it also could be said the neoclassical influence of French artists was beginning to overtake the baroque tradition. Wittkower describes him as the "Bolognese Maratta".

Numerous painters worked and trained in his prolific studio. Among those who spent time as pupils, apprentices, or assistants were Tommaso Aldrovandini, Luca Antonio Bistoia, Giacomo Boni, Francesco Caccianiga, Ferdinando del Cairo, Antonio Cifrondi, Gaetano Frattini,[4] Giacinto Garofalini, Carlo Cesare Giovannini, Ercole Graziani the elder, Girolamo Gatti, Pietro Gilardi, Giuseppe Marchesi (il Sansone), Michelangelo Monticelli, Giuseppe Pedretti, Pietro Francesco Prina, Pietro Antonio Avanizi, Antonio Rossi (painter), Gentile Zanardi, and his son Jacopo.[5]

The Dulwich Picture Gallery (London), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musei Civici of Macerata, the Museo Glauco Lombardi (Parma, Italy), the National Art Gallery of Bologna (Italy), Bojnice Castle (Slovakia) and the State Museums of Florence are among the public institutions holding paintings by Marcantonio Franceschini.




Notes


  1. The picture collector's manual by James R. Hobbes London T&W Boone 1845 page 154
  2. Palazzo Ranuzzi belongs to the Court of Appeals in Bologna.
  3. The frescoes in Corpus Domini were damaged during World War II.
  4. Stefano Ticozzi, page 214.
  5. Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. London: T&W Boone. p. 92.

References




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[de] Marcantonio Franceschini

Marcantonio Franceschini (auch: Franceschini di Bologna, Franceschino da Bologna; Franceschini bolognese; * 5. April 1648 in Bologna; † 24. Dezember 1729 ebenda)[1] war ein italienischer Maler und Freskant der Bologneser Schule und international renommierter Vertreter des barocken Klassizismus.
- [en] Marcantonio Franceschini

[es] Marcantonio Franceschini

Marcantonio Franceschini (Bolonia, 5 de abril de 1648-Bolonia, 24 de diciembre de 1729), pintor italiano activo durante el barroco tardío. Es una de las últimas grandes figuras de la Escuela Boloñesa, sobre la que ejerció un claro liderazgo en su época. Su estilo se rige por las normas del clasicismo representadas a principios del siglo por Francesco Albani, que en sus manos alcanzó una gran pureza.

[fr] Marcantonio Franceschini

Marcantonio Franceschini (né en 1648 à Bologne, en Émilie-Romagne et mort dans la même ville le 24 décembre 1729) est un peintre italien baroque de la seconde moitié du XVIIe et du début du XVIIIe siècle, appartenant à l'école bolonaise, qui a été actif dans sa ville natale.

[it] Marcantonio Franceschini

Marcantonio Franceschini (Bologna, 5 aprile 1648 – Bologna, 24 dicembre 1729) è stato un pittore italiano del periodo barocco, attivo principalmente a Bologna, sua patria. Era anche il padre e il maestro del pittore Giacomo Franceschini.

[ru] Франческини, Маркантонио

Маркантонио Франческини (итал. Marcantonio Franceschini, 5 апреля 1648, Болонья — 24 декабря 1729, Болонья) — итальянский рисовальщик, живописец и гравёр на меди академического направления болонской школы. Его брат Петронио Франческини был музыкантом. Сын и ученик — живописец Джакомо Мария Франческини (1672—1745), как и отец, был членом Болонской академии. В 1705 году стал каноником церкви Санта-Мария-Маджоре[7].



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