Michele Foschini
Michele Foschini (September 14, 1711 – c. 1770) was an Italian painter, active in a late Baroque style.
He was born in Guardia Sanframondi. He studied under Niccola Maria Rossi, a pupil of Francesco Solimena. He was respected for his quadratura, and painted in both fresco and oil for churches of Naples, and some rooms in the Royal Casino at Portici.[1] He painted frescoes (1732) for the church of the Fathers of San Giovanni di Dio and in (1738) for the ceiling of Santa Maria della Pace both churches in Naples.[2]
References
- ^ Le belle arti, Volumes 1-2, By Giovanni Battista Gennaro Grossi, Tipografia del Giornale Enciclopedico, Strada del Salvadore a Sant'Angelo a Nilo #48, Naples (1820); page 191.
- ^ Enciclopedia Treccani Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 49 (1997), entry by Matteo Lafranconi.
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