Joseph Appiani

Joseph Ignaz APPIANI (Italian: Giuseppe Ignazio APPIANI; * October 16, 1706 in Munich, according to other data in Porto Ceresio in the province of Varese, † August 19 1785 in Triefenstein ) was a painter, especially a fresco painter, court painter to the Elector of Mainz, founder and first director of the Mainz Academy of Arts. He was the son of the plasterer Pietro Francesco Appiani from Porto Ceresio and Mary Sophia ( Fürstenfeld ) Bruck. His uncle was the plasterer APPIANI Jacopo ( 1687-1742 ).

Works

Germany

Bavaria

• Ceiling painting in the " White Hall" Schloss Seehof Memmelsdorf near Bamberg (1751-1752)
• Basilica of the Fourteen Holy (1763/1764-1769)
• Jesuit Church of St. Michael in Würzburg ( after 1770 )
• Monastery Triefenstein (from 1784)
• High altar fresco in the old parish church of St. James in Bad Kissingen " James heals on the way to his execution Sick ", signed " APPIANI " on the collar, the bulldog on the left side (from 1775)

Baden-Wurttemberg

• Collegiate Church of the Assumption in Lindau ( 1749)
• Refectory in the monastery Obermarchtal
• New Castle ( fresco in the staircase and vaulted in the Hall of Mirrors ) and Chapel of St Charles Borromeo seminary Meersburg ( 1761-62 )
• St. Michael, the former Church of the German Order Coming Altshausen (about 1758 and about 1766/1767 )
• Holy Cross Chapel in Oberndorf bei Konstanz ( 1748)
• Catholic Parish Church of St. Afra in Oberheim ( Zollernalb circle) ( 1751-1754 )

Oberpfalz

• Monastery church forest Assen ( 1727)

Rhineland -Palatinate

• Former collegiate church (church ) in Mainz ( 1755/1756 )

Hesse

• Bolongaropalast in Frankfurt- Höchst ( 1774)
• Parish church in Camberg (1778-1779)
• Monastery church Heidefeld (1783/1784)

Switzerland

• Herrliberg ( 1732)
• Zurich (1732? )
• Hospital Church of the Holy Spirit in Solothurn (ca. 1741)
• Arlesheimer Cathedral ( 1759-60 )