Tommaso Conca

Tommaso Conca, also Tommaso Maria Conca, ( born December 22, 1734 Gaeta, † December 13, 1822 in Rome) was an Italian painter at the turn of the late Baroque period through to the Roman classicism.

Life

He was trained by his uncle Sebastiano Conca, of how he came from Gaeta. First Tommaso emulated his uncle, then sat down but the art of the Carracci apart.

Well even in the " Academia del Nudo " his uncle he met Anton Raphael Mengs, the major innovators of art and classical painter who had settled from 1748 permanently in Rome and about the friendship of an archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann with the reception of antiquity to a completely new conception of art came from. This stylistic path followed Tommaso Conca substantially and created a series of frescoes and panel paintings, which reveal particularly towards the end of the 18th century neo-classical influence.

From 1780 to 1786 he was mainly occupied with the painting of the casinos in the Villa Borghese (Rome). 1786, he painted in the Museo Pio - Clementino the ceiling of the museum hall. 1789 followed the order, the dome and side vaults of the Cathedral of Città di Castello to be provided with frescoes. In 1811 he was involved in the decoration of the Quirinal palace for Napoleon.

Work

  • Villa Borghese ( Rome) (Egyptian Room ): 8 frieze images to Antony and Cleopatra and ceiling fresco: Cycle to Cybele (1780 )
  • Villa Borghese, Rome ( Silenenzimmer ) Fresco " Bacchus victims "
  • Vatican Museums, Sala della fresco: "Apollo and the Muses ," Apollo and Marsyas and other scenes ( 1782-87 )
  • Chiesa San Eustacio ( Rome): Decoration of St. Mary's Chapel: " Flight into Egypt " and " Rest on the Flight "
  • Citta di Castello Cathedral in: decoration of the dome and the side vaults, "Christ ," " Madonna and S. Floridus ", " scenes from the life of S. Floridus and Crescentianus " and personalized representations of virtues, the church and religion.
  • Museo Pio Clementino, Rome ( Musensaal ): Scenes of Apollo, Marsyas, the seven sages, Mercury Homer, Aeschylus and Pindar.
  • Palazzo del Governo in Ascoli Piceno: fresco decoration
  • Fine Art Museums of San Francisco: Allegorical figure, chalk and watercolor
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