Bartolomeo Altomonte

Bartolomeo Altomonte or Bartholomew (also Hohenberg ) ( born February 24, 1694 Warsaw, † November 11, 1783 in St. Florian) was an Austrian painter and representatives of baroque fresco painting.

Life

Bartolomeo came in 1694 as the third of six children in a suburb of Warsaw today to the world. His father, Martino Altomonte, had been previously summoned to the court of the Polish King Jan Sobieski.

Bartolomeo Altomonte spent most of his life in Linz and worked mainly in Austrian monasteries (about St. Florian's Priory and pen Admont ) or the Collegiate Church Duke Castle, for which a Deckenbildbozzetto was that in the exhibition " Passavia Sacra - St. Stephen in Art and reverence " ( Passau, 1980) was shown. He continued to partially his father designs, but also learned at Daniel Gran tendencies to Rococo remained the artist life strange, so he regarded as the last great representative of Barockallegorie.

Works (selection)

  • The Four Seasons, oil on canvas, 74.5 × 94.5 cm, 1737, Residence Gallery, Salzburg
  • Death of Saint Joseph, oil on canvas, 1746, Parish Church of St. Joseph's, Kollerschlag
  • Transfiguration of Christ's sufferings, oil on canvas, 126 x 85 cm, 1740, Belvedere, Vienna
  • Ecstasy of St. Francis, oil on canvas, 252 x 160 cm, 1700, Belvedere, Vienna
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