Francesco Albotto Explained

Francesco Albotto (1721–1757) was an Italian painter from Venice, mainly producing vedute. He was a pupil of Michele Marieschi. After Marieschi's death, Albotto married his widow and took over his shop,^[1] and continued to produce paintings in a similar style until his own death, which has led to some problems in attributing paintings to Marieschi versus Albotto.^[2]

Works

• Veduta del Molo e del Bacino di San Marco, Sotheby's, New York,
• San Giuseppe di Castello (1745), oil canvas, private collection
• Campo Santi Giovanni
• Molo San Marco
• Capriccio con obelisco, oil canvas, Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergame,
• Capriccio con obelisco e arco gotico, oil canvas, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venise,
• Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, oil canvas, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venise,
• View of grand canal with the Santa Maria della Salute church, oil canvas,
• View of the camp and doors of the Arsenal (1743–1746),^[3]
• View of the Piazzetta, with the Palazzo Ducale and the Biblioteca Marciana, Westbury Fine Art ltd, oil on canvas

Bibliography

• R. Toledano, Michele Marieschi: l'opera completa, Milan, 1988,
• Dario Succi, Marieschi: tra Canaletto e Guardi, catalogue, Turin, 1989,
• M. Manzelli, Michele Marieschi e il suo alter-ego Francesco Albotto, Venise, 1991,
• Domenico Sedini, Francesco Albotto, online catalogue Artgate of the Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC-BY-SA.
• Miklós Boskovits, Giorgio FossaluzzaLa collezione Cagnola. I dipinti, editor: Nomos Edizioni, Busto Arsizio, 1998.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Juergen Schulz . The New Palaces of Medieval Venice . Penn State Press . 2004 . 0-271-02351-1 . 145–146.
2. Encyclopedia: Michele (Giovanni) Marieschi . The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century . Yale University Press . 1994 . 0-300-06186-2 . 466.
3. Web site: Complete list of (after) Francesco Albotto's oil paintings. 1st-art-gallery. 1st-Art-Gallery Inc.. 1 December 2015.
4. Web site: Francesco Albotto, 1722—1758, Italian. openartcollection. The Open Art Collection Inc.. 1 December 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151208050959/http://www.openartcollection.com/-/s/?i=963ff5fa2dfffe626dd1fc57501b92e772511e85&t=artist. 8 December 2015. dead.