Francesco Albotto (1721–1757) was an Italian painter from Venice, mainly producing vedute. He was a pupil of Michele Marieschi. After Marieschi's death, Albotto married his widow and took over his shop,[1] and continued to produce paintings in a similar style until his own death, which has led to some problems in attributing paintings to Marieschi versus Albotto.[2]

Veduta del campo e delle porte dell'Arsenale, 1743–1746 (Fondazione Cariplo)

Works edit

  • Veduta del Molo e del Bacino di San Marco, Sotheby's, New York,
  • San Giuseppe di Castello (1745), oil canvas, private collection
  • Campo Santi Giovanni
  • Molo San Marco
  • Capriccio con obelisco, oil canvas, Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergame,
  • Capriccio con obelisco e arco gotico, oil canvas, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venise,
  • Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, oil canvas, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venise,
  • View of grand canal with the Santa Maria della Salute church, oil canvas,
  • View of the camp and doors of the Arsenal (1743–1746),[3]
  • View of the Piazzetta, with the Palazzo Ducale and the Biblioteca Marciana, Westbury Fine Art ltd, oil on canvas

Bibliography edit

  • R. Toledano, Michele Marieschi: l'opera completa, Milan, 1988,
  • Dario Succi, Marieschi: tra Canaletto e Guardi, catalogue, Turin, 1989,
  • M. Manzelli, Michele Marieschi e il suo alter-ego Francesco Albotto, Venise, 1991,
  • Domenico Sedini, Francesco Albotto, online catalogue Artgate of the Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC-BY-SA.
  • Miklós Boskovits, Giorgio FossaluzzaLa collezione Cagnola. I dipinti, editor: Nomos Edizioni, Busto Arsizio, 1998.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Juergen Schulz (2004). The New Palaces of Medieval Venice. Penn State Press. pp. 145–146. ISBN 0-271-02351-1.
  2. ^ "Michele (Giovanni) Marieschi". The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. Yale University Press. 1994. p. 466. ISBN 0-300-06186-2.
  3. ^ "Complete list of (after) Francesco Albotto's oil paintings". 1st-art-gallery. 1st-Art-Gallery Inc. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  4. ^ "Francesco Albotto, 1722—1758, Italian". openartcollection. The Open Art Collection Inc. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

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