Stefano Pozzi
Stefano Pozzi (9 November 1699 – 11 June 1768) was an Italian painter, designer, draughtsman, and decorator whose career was spent largely in Rome.
Born in Rome, he was one of four artist sons of his father, an innkeeper: Rocco (1701–74) was an engraver,[1] with whom Stefano worked on occasion;[2] Andrea (1718–69), a carver in ivory; Giuseppe (1723–65) was also a painter. Stefano Pozzi studied in the ateliers of the two best followers of Carlo Maratta, that of Andrea Procaccini, who departed for Spain in 1720, and then Agostino Masucci. In 1732, Stefano was admitted to the Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon and became its Regent in 1739. In 1736, he was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca, the artist guild in Rome.
Pozzi worked primarily for Roman churches; for example, he painted a Blessed Niccolò Albergati for a chapel of the
In 1744, he was summoned to
In subsequent commissions, he worked with the architect
.For the library that Vanvitelli designed for the
Architects Vincenzo Brenna, Giacomo Quarenghi and painter Antonio Cavallucci trained in classic painting at Pozzi workshop.
The picture [3] Madonna surrounded by angels and clouds has been recently attributed to him by Dr. Stella Rudolph.
Pozzi died in Rome in 1768.
Notes
- ^ He engraved the masterful map of Rome by Giambattista Nolli, 1748, with its rich enframement, minute views of monuments, and allegories and cavorting putti. [1]
- ^ They were jointly responsible, for example, for the allegorical frontispiece, doubtless drawn by Stefano, to Francesco Bianchini's astronomical work, Hesperi et Phosphori nova phaenomena sive observationes circa planetam Veneris Rome 1728 [2]
- ^ "Church of Sant'Apollinare", Turismo Roma, Major Events, Sport, Tourism and Fashion Department
- ^ Riccardo Cigola, "Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj".
References
- [4] (Rome 1763)