Francesco Pavona

Francesco Pavona (* around 1695 in Udine, † 1777 in Venice) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school of the Baroque. Pavona is known as oil, but even more as a pastel painter. Next to large formats He also created high quality portraits.

Life

Pavona came from Udine in Friuli Venezia Giulia, first learned at Giacomo Carneo ( the father of Antonio Carneo ), then with Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole and Marcantonio Franceschini in Bologna and then in Milan. There he was a guest of the famous painter Carlo Carlone, with whom he had a long-standing friendship. During a stay of Rosalba Carriera pastel painter Palazzo Lantieri Gorizia in 1730 Pavona was her pupil; from his hand several pictures of saints are there preserved. In the Pinakothek museums of the province of Gorizia ( Musei Provinciali ) in the former Palazzo Attems - Petzenstein today to see more paintings of Pavona. Also from 1730 dates the appearance of a " Rosary Madonna" (Madonna del Rosario ) in the parish church of S. Martino in Bertiolo at Udine. In 1737 he was already so well known that the art collector Francesco Maria Niccolo Gabburri acquired a self-portrait of Pavona. Later Pavona went to Genoa, Spain, Portugal ( Lisbon, 1735), Sweden, Denmark and other countries. as well as to Germany, where he worked on various farms. In Germany, he was supported by the philosophical writer, art critic and dealer Francesco Algarotti, and from 1745 for 14 years at the Saxon court in Dresden, operating under the well-known as a patron of the arts Elector Friedrich August II, got married and started a family. 1759 he traveled, probably mediated by Algarotti, to Bayreuth in order there to make several portraits of Margrave Friedrich and to buy some plants (including Batoni Pompeo and Anton Raphael Mengs ) from the collection of paintings Margravine Wilhelmine. Another of the paintings of Pavona is - as part of the original design - in Wörlitz at Dessau. Later Pavona went back for a few years after Bologna. From there he moved the beginning of the 1760s to Venice, where he was elected in 1763 in the Painting and Drawing Academy ( Accademia di Disegno Pittura e ), where he was favored with ten votes to eight Canaletto.