Francesco Zugno (attr.) (Venice 1709 - 1787)
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Oil on canvas
54 x 32 cm
Francesco Zugno was born in Venice in 1709 and probably died there in 1787. The Zugnos are an ancient Venetian family.
We have little biographical information about him. A successful painter, he trained at the Academy of Painting and Sculpture of Venice. He married in 1742, the year in which he created the frescoes in the church of Fratta Polesine, near Rovigo.
On the advice of his father Faustin Zugno, he entered the studio of Giambattista Tiepolo around 1730. Francesco already had a solid pictorial training and as a disciple of Tiepolo he created, between 1730 and 1737, several pictorial works and subsequently had his first commission, for paintings in the church of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, in Venice.
In September 1776 he was appointed master at the Academy of Venice; but already in October Zugno left teaching, due to the poor state of his health. Following a tuberculosis infection, he died at the age of seventy-nine, in his Venetian home, in Calle della Rosa, in San Cassiano.
Francesco Zugno, interpreter of the Rococo style in the territories of the Republic of Venice, created numerous works, including frescoes and canvases, in Veneto, Friuli and the Brescia area. His oil paintings on canvas and his drawings are found in many museums and private collections. Influenced, in the early part of his career, by Giambattista Tiepolo and Sebastiano Ricci, in the last part of his life he oriented himself towards a style contaminated by neoclassical instances.
Source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Zugno
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