Domenico Fetti
Domenico Fetti | |
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Duke Ferdinando I Gonzaga |
Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti) (c. 1589 – 16 April 1623) was an Italian Baroque painter who had been active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice.
Biography
Born in Rome to a little-known painter, Pietro Fetti, Domenico is said to have apprenticed initially under
In August or September 1622,
In Venice, where he remained despite pleas from the Duke to return to Mantua, Fetti changed his style: his formalized painting style became more colourful. In addition, he devoted attention to smaller cabinet pieces that adapt
His painting style appears to have been influenced by
Gallery
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Portrait of an Actor (c. 1621–1622)
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Ideal Portrait of Gonzaga (c. 1620)
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Christ and the Tribute Money (c. 1618–1620), a copy of The Tribute Money by Titian
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Peter's vision of a sheet with animals (c. 1619)
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David with the Head of Goliath (c. 1610–1620)
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Veronica's Veil (1618 or 1622)
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The Young David Gathering Stones for his Slingshot
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The Repentant St Mary Magdalene (c. 1617–1621)
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Sleeping Girl (c. 1615)
Works
Fetti's works include:
- The Good Samaritan (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
- Melancholy (Accademia, Venice)
- Emperor Domitian (Louvre)
- Eve and Laboring Adam (Louvre)
- Angel in the Garden (Louvre)
- Jacob's Dream (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
- Portrait of an Actor (Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
- The Healing of Tobit(Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)
References
- ^ Pamela Askew, "The Parable Paintings of Domenico Fetti." Art Bulletin 43 (1961:31–32], reprinted in Seventeenth Century Art in Italy, France and Spain (The Garland Library of the History of Art 8). New York, 1976.
- ^ Some examples: The Good Samaritan, attributed to Fetti himself, ca 1618–22 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), repetitions by Fetti are in Boston and Dresden, as well as studio repetitions; Parable of the Mote and the Beam, attributed, ca 1619 (Metropolitan Museum); Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man, workshop, ca 1618–1628 (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC).
- ^ Askew 1978.
- ^ See Alfred Moir, The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. 2 vols. (Harvard University Press) 1967.
- ^ Le vite de' pittori, degli scultori, et architetti veronesi, by Bartolomeo Dal Pozzo (1718), page 169.
- Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). Pelican History of Art, Art and Architecture Italy, 1600–1750. Penguin Books. pp. 106–107.
- Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Domenico Feti". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- Askew, Pamela (1954). Domenico Fetti. London.
External links
Media related to Paintings by Domenico Fetti at Wikimedia Commons