Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1412-1459 Related Paintings of Giovanni di Francesco :. | Situation | Saint Nicholas Saves Three Innocent Men | Portrait of Giovanni de- Medici | Emperor Francis I sg | Lafitte Brothers in Dominique Yous Bar | Related Artists: James Madison Alden 1854-1860 Francesco Fontebasso (4 October 1707 - 31 May 1769) was an Italian painter painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice. He first apprenticed with Sebastiano Ricci, but was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. In 1761, Fontebasso visited Saint Petersburg and produced ceiling paintings and decorations for the Winter Palace. Fontebasso returned to Venice in 1768. He helped decorate a chapel in San Francesco della Vigna.
He died in Venice in 1769.
studio of giotto b. 1267, Vespignano, d. 1337, Firenze
