Stefano Pozzi (9 November 1699 — 11 June 1768) was an Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator whose career was spent largely in Rome. Stefano Pozzi - The Abduction of Deianira - Walters 371836

Stefano Pozzi - The Abduction of Deianira - Walters 371836

Born in

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, he was one of four artist sons of his father, an innkeeper: Rocco (1701–74) was an engraver, with whom Stefano worked on occasion; Andrea (1718–69), a carver in ivory;

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(1723–65) was also a painter. Stefano Pozzi studied in the ateliers of the two best followers of

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, that of Andrea Procaccini, who departed for Spain in 1720, and then Agostino Masucci. In 1732 Stefano was admitted to the

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and became its Regent in 1739. In 1736, he was admitted to the

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, the artist guild in Rome. Pozzi worked primarily for Roman churches; for example, he painted a ''Blessed Niccolò Albergati'' for a chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore; eight ovals between the windows (c. 1736) for the church of

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(

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1763); the refectory of the Church of San Gregorio Nazareno; a ''Death of St Joseph'' (1742) for the third chapel of the Church of Santissimo Nome di Maria (Titi 1763). He frescoed a ''Sant'Apollinare in Gloria'' in the vault of the church of

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, which was rebuilt by

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and rededicated in 1748."Church of Sant'Apollinare", Turismo Roma, Major Events, Sport, Tourism and Fashion Department
/ref> Among the flock of artists who worked on the Chapel of

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, he contributed figures of angels in the spandrels of arches (Titi 1763). In 1744 he was summoned to

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by Cardinal Giuseppe Spinelli to decorate the apse of the

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restored by Paolo Posi; for the right wall, he painted the large oil of ''SS Januarius and Agrippino Driving out the Saracens'' (still in place) and on the vault, a fresco of a choir of Angels (still in place). In subsequent commissions, he worked with the architect

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: in 1744 he produced two paintings for the Montemorcino monastery that Vanvitelli had built for the Olivetans at Perugia (now the Palazzo dell’ Università): an ''Annunciation'' (still in place) and the ''Blessed Bernardino Tolomei among the Plague-stricken'' ( Santa Francesca Romana in Rome). In

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he frescoed the sacristy of the Church of il Gesù. For the library that Vanvitelli designed for the Palazzo Sciarra–Colonna in Rome, Pozzi painted allegories of the Signs of the Zodiac, and in Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj he decorated the Saletto degli Specchi.Riccardo Cigola, "Palazzo Doria-Pamphilj"
Architects

Vincenzo Brenna Vincenzo Brenna (1747Lanceray, p. 37, states birth year as 1745. Contemporary historians ( Dmitry Shvidkovsky) agree on 1747 (Shvidkovsky, p. 293) – May 17, 1820) was an Italian architect and painter who was the house architect of Paul I of Russ ...

Giacomo Quarenghi Giacomo Quarenghi (; rus, Джа́комо Кваре́нги, Džákomo Kvaréngi, ˈdʐakəmə kvɐˈrʲenʲɡʲɪ; 20 or 21 September 1744) was an Italian architect who was the foremost and most prolific practitioner of neoclassical architectu ...

and painter Antonio Cavallucci trained in classic painting at Pozzi workshop. The pictur

''Madonna surrounded by angels and clouds '' has been recently attributed to him by Dr. Stella Rudolph. Pozzi died in Rome in 1768.

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