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The Good Samaritan Print by Domenico Fetti

The Good Samaritan

The Parable of the Mote and the Beam Print by Domenico Fetti

The Parable of the Mote and the Beam

Melancholia Print by Domenico Fetti and Workshop

Melancholia

Hero Mourning the Dead Leander Print by Domenico Fetti

Hero Mourning the Dead Leander

Perseus frees Andromeda Print by Domenico Fetti

Perseus frees Andromeda

Mystical Marriage of St Catherine and the Christ Child with Peter the Martyr Print by Domenico Fetti

Mystical Marriage of St Catherine and the Christ Child with Peter the Martyr

Sleeping Girl Print by Domenico Fetti

Sleeping Girl

Flying and Adoring Angels Print by Domenico Fetti

Flying and Adoring Angels

A Classical Poet Print by Domenico Fetti

A Classical Poet

Flight into Egypt Print by Domenico Fetti

Flight into Egypt

Jacob's Dream Print by Domenico Fetti

Jacob's Dream

Galatea and Polyphemus Print by Domenico Fetti

Galatea and Polyphemus

The Parable of the Weeds Print by Domenico Fetti

The Parable of the Weeds

Saint Peter Repenting Print by Domenico Fetti

Saint Peter Repenting

Moses before the Burning Bush Print by Domenico Fetti

Moses before the Burning Bush

Saint Peter's Vision of the Unclean Beasts Print by Domenico Fetti

Saint Peter's Vision of the Unclean Beasts

Salvator Mundi Print by Domenico Fetti

Salvator Mundi

Domenico Fetti

Flying and Adoring Angels

Domenico Fetti

The Good Samaritan (Workshop)

Domenico Fetti

Parable of the wicked servant

Domenico Fetti

Parable of the prodigal son

Domenico Fetti

David

Domenico Fetti

David with the Head of Goliath

Domenico Fetti

The Young David Gathering Stones for his Slingshot

Domenico Fetti

Ecce Homo

Domenico Fetti

Flight to Egypt

Domenico Fetti

Margherita Gonzaga Receiving the Model of the Church of St Ursula

Domenico Fetti

The Guardian Angel Protecting a Child from the Empire of the Demon

Domenico Fetti

The Immaculate Conception

Domenico Fetti

The Repentant St Mary Magdalene

Domenico Fetti

Saint Mary Magdalene Penitent

Domenico Fetti

Melancholy

Domenico Fetti

Melancholy

Domenico Fetti

Moses before the Burning Bush

Domenico Fetti

Parable of the Lost Drachma

Domenico Fetti

Parable of the Lost Drachma

Domenico Fetti

The Parable of the Vineyard

Domenico Fetti

Portrait of an Actor

Domenico Fetti

Parable of the Good Samaritan

Domenico Fetti

Parable of the Good Samaritan

Domenico Fetti

Portrait of a Scholar

Domenico Fetti

Tobias Healing his Father

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Hero Mourning the Dead Leander Print by Domenico Fetti

Hero Mourning the Dead Leander

Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti) (c. 1589 – 1623) was an Italian Baroque painter active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice.

Biography

Born in Rome to a little-known painter, Pietro Fetti, Domenico is said to have apprenticed initially under Ludovico Cigoli, or his pupil Andrea Commodi in Rome from circa 1604–1613. He then worked in Mantua from 1613 to 1622, patronized by the Cardinal, later Duke Ferdinando I Gonzaga. In the Ducal Palace, he painted the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes. The series of representations of New Testament parables he carried out for his patron's studiolo gave rise to a popular specialty,[1] and he and his studio often repeated his compositions.[2]

In August or September 1622,[3] his feuds with some prominent Mantuans led him to move to Venice, which for the first few decades of the seventeenth century had persisted in sponsoring Mannerist styles (epitomized by Palma the Younger and the successors of Tintoretto and Veronese). Into this mix, in the 1620s–30s, three "foreigners"—Fetti and his younger contemporaries Bernardo Strozzi and Jan Lys—breathed the first influences of Roman Baroque style. They adapted some of the rich coloration of Venice but adapted it to Caravaggio-influenced realism and monumentality.[4]

In Venice where he remained despite pleas from the Duke to return to Mantua, Fetti changed his style: his formalised painting style became more painterly and colourful. In addition, he devoted attention to smaller cabinet pieces that adapt genre imaging to religious stories. His group of paintings entitled Parables, which represent New Testament scenes, are at the Dresden Gemäldegalerie. He influenced Leonaert Bramer.

His style appears to be influenced by Rubens. He would likely have continued to find excellent patronage in Venice had he not died there in 1623 or 1624. Jan Lys, eight years younger, but who had arrived in Venice nearly contemporaneously, died during the plague of 1629–30. Subsequently, Fetti's style would influence the Venetians Pietro della Vecchia and Sebastiano Mazzone. Of of his pupils in Mantua were Francesco Bernardi (il Bigolaro) and Dionisio Guerri.[5]

Works

Domenico Fetti

Scholar (Archimedes or Aristarchus of Samos)

Fetti's works include:

The Good Samaritan (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Melancholy (Accademia, Venice)
Emperor Domitian (Louvre)
Eve and Laboring Adam (Louvre)
Angel in the Garden (Louvre)
Jacob's Dream (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Portrait of an Actor (Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)

References

Wittkower, Rudolf (1993). Pelican History of Art, Art and Architecture Italy, 1600–1750. Penguin Books. pp. 106–107.
"Domenico Feti". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 1913.
Askew, Pamela (1954). Domenico Fetti. London.

Pamela Askew, "The Parable Paintings of Domenico Fetti." Art Bulletin 43 (1961:31–32], reprinted in Seventeenth Century Art in Italy, France and Spain (The Garland Library of the History of Art 8). New York, 1976.
Some examples: The Good Samaritan, attributed to Fetti himself, ca 1618–22 (Metropolitan Museum of Art), repetitions by Fetti are in Boston and Dresden, as well as studio repetitions; Parable of the Mote and the Beam, attributed, ca 1619 (Metropolitan Museum); Parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man, workshop, ca 1618–1628 (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC).
Askew 1978.
See Alfred Moir, The Italian Followers of Caravaggio. 2 vols. (Harvard University Press) 1967.
Le vite de' pittori, degli scultori, et architetti veronesi, by Bartolomeo Dal Pozzo (1718), page 169.

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