{"id":121380,"date":"2025-01-25T11:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T10:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/?post_type=artisti&#038;p=121380"},"modified":"2025-09-29T13:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T12:12:33","slug":"francesco-fedeli-know-as-il-maggiotto","status":"publish","type":"artisti","link":"https:\/\/egidimadeinitaly.com\/en\/artisti\/francesco-fedeli-know-as-il-maggiotto\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Fedeli know as Il Maggiotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Francesco Fedeli, known as Il Maggiotto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Venice, 1738 \u2013 1805), Italian painter and physicist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Francesco was the son of the Venetian painter <\/span><b>Domenico Fedeli<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from whom he inherited the nickname Maggiotto, which became their last name. He was considered one of the greatest students of Giovanni Battista\u00a0Tiepolo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trained in his father\u2019s workshop, he was an artist straddling two eras. He was an eclectic painter whose work ran the gamut from historical to devotional and genre painting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Andrea Tessier provides a comprehensive list of works that the artist painted both for noble Venetian patrons and foreign ones, including Russians, French and English buyers of his works, proving the appeal of his painting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the age of 23, Francesco was admitted to the College of Painters of Venice, and he was <\/span><b>named a &#8220;painting master&#8221; in 1771 by the Venetian Academy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. He alternated holding the two-year roles of curator, councilor, mayor, prior, and eventually president.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many prominent artists trained at his academy, such as the engraver <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\uddda<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\udde6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\uddd5\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddff\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddfc\ud835\ude07\ud835\ude07\ud835\uddf6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (enrolled in 1772), the sculptor <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\udddf<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\udded\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf1\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddfa\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf4\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddf6<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and major Venetian painters of neoclassicism such as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\uddd9\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfb<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\uddd5\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude03\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddf0\ud835\uddfe\ud835\ude02\ud835\uddee<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\udde5\ud835\ude02\ud835\ude00\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf4\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddfc<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\uddd9\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf0\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude00\ud835\uddf0\ud835\uddfc<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\udddb\ud835\uddee\ud835\ude06\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude07<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Schiavoni, Querena, and Politi.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Francesco worked successfully in almost all painting genres. He did not shy from painting copies of famous artists of his day, miniatures on ivory, oil painting on copper and frescoes without neglecting drawing as its own art and the preparatory drawing for etchings. These compositions were translated into engravings by contemporary artists like <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\uddda<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\udde9\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddfd\ud835\uddee\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddfc<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\udde7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\udde9\ud835\uddf6\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddfc<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\udde3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\uddd7\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddf9<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\ud835\uddd6\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddf2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrea Tessier provides a comprehensive list of works that the artist painted both for noble Venetian patrons and foreign ones. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":121399,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[6508,6509],"class_list":["post-121380","artisti","type-artisti","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tags-f","tags-m"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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