Francesco Sozzi

Francesco Sozzi ( born October 26, 1732 in Palermo, † 1795 ) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque in Sicily.

Life

As the son and pupil of Olivio Sozzi and brother of Vito D' Anna Francesco Sozzi was a member of a thriving family business run by his father. He continued the style of the introduced by Olivio Sozzi to Palermo late Baroque, which connects the Roman classicism of Sebastiano Conca with the Rococo Corrado Giaquinto of. In 1765 he painted together with the Father and Vito D' Anna 's famous cycle of frescoes in the Chapel of the Ascension of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore of Sampieri, in the Olivio Sozzi came from a fall from a scaffold on 31 October of the same year died.

Francesco's son Agatino Sozzi (* 1765-1837 ) was known as a painter of miniature portraits and still lifes.

Works (selection)

• Chiesa di San Matteo al Cassaro (Palermo): Frescoes " Allegorical female figures " (1754, together with Vito D' Anna )
• Palazzo Isnello (Palermo): Freskenzyklos The Four Seasons (1760 )
• Biblioteca di Palazzo di Alliata Pietratagliata (Palermo): fresco "Allegory of Wisdom" ( 1762) and " The theological virtues of the prince " (with Vito D' Anna )
• Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ( Sampieri ): frescoes in the Chapel of the Ascension ( 1765, together with Olivio Sozzi and Vito D' Anna )
• Chiesa di Santa Chiara (Catania): fresco " Triumph of Virtue " (1766)
• Chiesa di San Francesco ( Catania): dome fresco Allegory of Virtue
• Chiesa di San Francesco di Paola ( Militello in Val di Catania): Altar images of saints " Francis of Assisi ", " Clara " and " Jesus Appears to the Holy Women Clare and Helena "
• Palazzo Arcivescovile ( Agrigento ): panel painting " Holy Bishops of Agrigento " (1777 )
• Chiesa di Santa Caterina ( Palermo): fresco " Madonna della Rosario " ( 1778)