Giovanni Fontana

L'Annunziata in S. M. - Drawing by Giovanni Fontana - 16th Century

16th Century

Old Testament Story is an Etching print realized by the artist Giovanni Lanfranco after Agostino Carracci About The Old Testament Story, 1607 ca. ...

The Sketch is an original drawing realized by Luigi Galli in the Late 19th Century. Stamped," Coll. Amadeo" Good conditions but aged. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes ...

Samuele 8 - Old Testament Story is an original Etching print realized by the artist Giovanni Lanfranco after Agostino Carracci. About The Old Testament Story, 1607 ca. Passpartout...

Study for Statue is an original drawing in pencil on paper, realized by the architect and engineer Giovanni Fontana (1540-1614). The state of preservation of the artwork is good exc...

The proposed attribution for this drawing in brown ink on paper is the name of the painter and academician of the Tuscan-Roman neoclassical cohort Francesco Nenci (Anghiari, April 19...

In this double-sided red chalk study, Simone Cantarini offers us a double reflection on the theme of the Judgment of Solomon. This sheet reveals his precise style and his sense of de...

18th to 19th Century "Art Presentation" Old Master Drawing Remarkable old master pen, ink and wash drawing of an art presentation Dimensions 14" wide x 8.5" high The lightly distr...

This masterly frontispiece study, executed with a very sure hand, testifies to the survival of the great Baroque taste in 18th century Venice. It could be one of the very last works by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini: the few lines that cross the papal arms evoke those of Benedict XIV, who became pope in 1740, one year before the artist's death. 1. Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini and the European influence of Venetian history painting in the 18th century Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini was born in Venice in 1675 and trained in the studio of the Milanese painter Paolo Pagani (1655 - 1716). Pagani, who had been living in Venice since 1667, took him to Moravia and Vienna from 1690 to 1696. After a stay in Rome from 1699 to 1701, Pellegrini married Angiola Carriera in 1704, the sister of the great pastelist Rosalba Carriera. From 1708 onwards, Pellegrini left Venice and began an extensive tour of Europe: he worked in England between 1708 and 1713, where he met great success, particularly at Kimbolton Castle and Castle Howard. He then worked in Germany and the Netherlands, then in Bohemia and Austria, before returning briefly to England in 1719. In 1720 he was in Paris where he decorated the ceilings of the Royal Bank for John Law...