Giovanni Antonio Fumiani
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San Zaccaria
.Giovanni Antonio Fumiani (1645–1710) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
Biography
Born in
modelli (Florence, Uffizi) painted for the patron Ferdinand de Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, for whom he worked for a long time, with Niccolò Cassana
acting as intermediary, Fumiani revealed a lively decorative sense and a taste for animated, sensual subjects that produced works of great quality.
Works
Between 1684 and 1704, Fumiani decorated the ceiling of
Sant'Ignazio
in Rome.
Fumiani putatively died from a fall from a San Pantalon ceiling scaffold, although some sources date his death to six years after he stopped work on the San Pantalon ceiling.
One of his last works was the 1705 large lunette depicting San Zaccaria).
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Ceiling at San Pantalon.
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References
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 531.
- Mocci, Laura. "FUMIANI, Giovanni Antonio". www.treccani.it. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
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