Francesco Manno
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Francesco Manno (20 December 1754 – 18 June 1831) was an Italian painter and architect of the Neoclassical style.
Biography
Born at
Accademia dei Virtuosi del Pantheon. Favored by Pope Pius VI
, Manno was appointed Painter of the Sacred Apostolic Buildings in 1800. He died in Rome in 1831.
Major works
- Santi Apostoli: painting of "Descent of the Cross"
- Palazzo Altieri (1793): overdoor panels
- Saint Francis Caracciolo" and on decorations in the Chapel of Alaleona Ruspoli.
- Quirinal Palace (1812–1823): ceiling fresco in the Sala degli Ambasciatori (1822-3), depicting the Judgement of Solomon, with two flanking allegorical tondi.[2]
- Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio a Trevi (1818): frescoes of the church vault.
- Palazzo Arcivescovile, Monreale (1830): frescoes of some rooms.
Notes
- ^ Betti, Salvatore (1834). Emilio de Tipaldo (ed.). Biografia degli Italiani illustri nelle scienze: lettere ed arti del Secolo XVIII, e de'Contermporanei. Tipografia di Alvisopoli, Venice. p. 287.
- ^ it:Palazzo del Quirinale#La Sala degli Ambasciatori
References
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. York St. #4, Covent Garden, London: George Bell and Sons. p. 101.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - "Manno". The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press, Inc. 2002.
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