Francesco Foschi (Ancona, 1710 – Rome, 1780)
Snowy Landscape
Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 98 cm
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Francesco Foschi, born in Ancona in 1710, was part of a large family of painters from the Marche region who were also active in Rome during the 18th century; he had at least four brothers, all artists, who, however, achieved decidedly less fame. His initial training took place in Fano in the workshop of the painter Francesco Mancini (1679 – 1758), a talented student of Carlo Cignani.
Foschi is documented in Rome in 1744 and then again in 1764; he remained there until his death in 1780. Between 1744 and 1764, it is likely that he returned to the Marche region, as suggested by the canvas depicting the "Panorama of Loreto, with the figures of Abundance and Justice and the portraits of Leo X, Sixtus V and Benedict XIV" now housed in the Museum of the Apostolic Palace of Loreto, probably commissioned by the bishop of Ancona, Benedict XIV Lambertini (Lambertini held the episcopal see between 1727 and 1731). The same museum houses another work by the artist – this time signed – with the "Translation… (See Giamblanco catalog 2014)
[Giamblanco Gallery]
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