Antonio Zanchi

Antonio Zanchi ( born December 6, 1631 Koper, † April 12, 1722 in Rome) was an Italian painter of the Baroque.

Life

Antonio Zanchi was a pupil of Giacomo Pedrali, Matteo Ponzone and the Venetian Baroque painter Francesco Ruschi. Other influences gave the works of Luca Giordano and Giovanni Battista Langettis. He managed one of the most famous representatives of the tenebrist in Venice to be his time. From 1687, he was a member of Fraglia dei pittori.

His style is characterized by an expressive, sometimes theatrical realism and dramatic chiaroscuro effects. His subject matter includes religious and mythological motifs as well as portraits. This Zanchi addressed remarkably often sick and criminal.

Zanchi provided numerous commissioned works for churches and palaces. His reputation brought him to Munich. Produced images for the Munich Residenz and the Theatinerkirche In his Venetian workshop. The best known of these works, the high altar painting " St. Adelheid and Saint Cajetan in Glory ", was destroyed in World War II. Among his pupils were Francesco Trevisani, Pietro Negri and Antonio Molinari. His son Giuseppe Zanchi was also a painter.