Domenico Fetti

Italian Baroque painter, 1589-1623
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David
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35116
Ecce Homo
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35117
Flight to Egypt
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35118
Hero and Leander
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35119
Melancholy
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35120
Moses before the Burning Bush
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35121
Parable of the Good Samaritan
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35122
Portrait of a Scholar
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35123
Portrait of an Actor
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35124
Saint Mary Magdalene Penitent
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35125
Sleeping Girl
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35126
The Repentant St Mary Magdalene
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35127
Tobias Healing his Father
Domenico Fetti
Item ID:35128
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Domenico Fetti (also spelled Feti, c. 1589 - 1623) was an Italian Baroque painter active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice. 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, and he and his studio often repeated his compositions. In August or September 1622, 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. 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.
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