Domenico Fetti

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Domenico Fetti
Duke Ferdinando I Gonzaga
Accademia, Venice
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Getty Museum
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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

studiolo gave rise to a popular speciality,[1] and he and his studio often repeated his compositions.[2]

In August or September 1622,

Jan Lys—breathed the first influences of the Roman Baroque style. They adapted some of the rich colouration of Venice but adapted it to Caravaggio-influenced realism and monumentality.[4]

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

genre imaging to religious stories. His group of paintings entitled Parables, which represent New Testament scenes, are at the Dresden Gemäldegalerie. He influenced Leonaert Bramer
.

His painting style appears to have been influenced by

Sebastiano Mazzone. His pupils in Mantua were Francesco Bernardi (il Bigolaro) and Dionisio Guerri.[5] He also instructed his sister Lucrina
in painting, and her works have sometimes been attributed to him.

Gallery

Works

Fetti's works include:

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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).
  3. ^ Askew 1978.
  4. ^ See Alfred Moir, The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. 2 vols. (Harvard University Press) 1967.
  5. ^ 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.
  • Public Domain 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