Giovanni Domenico Ferretti

Giovanni Domenico Ferretti or Giandomenico d' Imola (Florence, 1692 - 1768) is a painter of the school florentine of the period Rococo.

Biography

According to its contemporary Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Ferretti was likely to meet on its road a Master of large scale as bolonais it Giuseppe Maria Crespi which brought to the Tuscan school traditional the great tradition émilienne of the plain of Po, which gave to him the opportunity of a career of painter of great originality.

Income with Florence with a letter of introduction of the cardinal of Gozzadini near Cosme III of Médicis, it enters the workshop of Tommaso Redi and Sebastiano Galeotti.

He travels to Bologna to work with Felice Torelli and turns over then to Florence in 1715.

Ferretti joint Académie of the drawing of Florence where, later, he teaches painting but there also designed tapestries for the Médicis.

It is commissioned much in the painting of frescos, thus for the Badia Fiorentina, the vault San Guiseppe in Duomo, the furnace bridge and the cupola of the church of Al Vescovo de San Salvatore . One of its most important work was the decoration of the ceiling of the church Santa Maria del Carmine, destroyed then by a fire. The model of the frescos of Ferreti was influenced by those coloured of Sebastiano Ricci of Palazzo Marucelli. Ferretti decorated the Palazzo Amati Cellesi with Pistoia, the Palazzo Chigi Sansedoni with His, and the Villa Flowered with Pescia.

The frescos for the cupola of the cathedral of San Zeno in Pistoia are allotted to him.

Works

Badia Fiorentina - Florence, fresco of the chorus
Pieve S. Maria Assunta - Quarrata, Assunzione of Vergine
Camera dei Deputati - Rome, Ratto d' Europa
Museo Civico - Prato, Annunciazione
Civico Museum - Volterra, Crowned coversazione
Baa San Giusto - Volterra, Visita Santa Elisabetta
Église San Filippo - Pistoia, frescos
Convento of the S.S. Annunziata - Pistoia, frescos
Palazzo dei Priori - Volterra, Adorazione dei Magi
Palazzo Cevoli - Rammed, frescos
Église Sant' Angelo - Castiglion Fiorentino, Estasi Santa Teresa
Église San Lorenzo - Castello di Montegufoni close to Montespertoli, frescos
Palazzo Marchetti - Pistoia, frescos
Duomo - Pontremoli (ms), Nascita of Vergine
Église of Crowned Famiglia - Marina di Carrara, I Sette Santi fondatori
Confraternita of Misericora - San Giovanni Valdarno, Cristo E adulterated it
Musée of the Opera del Duomo - Pisa, It trasporto delle OSI S. Guido
communal Art gallery - Castiglion Fiorentino, Estasi S. Caterina da Siena E S. Teresa d' Avila
Museum of the Cathedral - Malta, San Giovanni Battista
Church of Santissima Annunziata - Leghorn, Annunciazione
Palazzo Panciatichi - Florence, frescos
Art gallery - Budrio, Crowned famiglia idiot San Giovannino

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