Sunday, April 21, 2019

Antonio Bellucci (1654-1726) - Venice

Antonio Bellucci
Self-portrait
ca. 1684
oil on canvas
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Antonio Bellucci
Judith and Holofernes
ca. 1680-1700
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum

Antonio Bellucci
Design for Ceiling Painting for Bensberg Castle honoring Elector Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz
ca. 1708-1709
oil on canvas
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Antonio Bellucci
Ascension of Christ
ca. 1719-20
oil on canvas
St Michael and All Angels Church, Great Witley, Worcestershire

"Antonio Bellucci – Venetian painter of religious and history subjects.  Born, Pieve de Soligo, 1654.  Traveled to court at Vienna and Düsseldorf, then in England 1716-22.  Patronised by Duke of Chandos and executed ceiling paintings for his chapel, c. 1719-20 (transferred to Great Witley Church, 1747)." 

– biographical note from the British Museum

"Antonio Bellucci (1654-1726) was a painter and engraver.  He worked initially in the Veneto region and in 1691 received the commission to paint the large canvas of the Doge praying for the Cessation of the Plague to the right of the main altar in the cathedral of S. Pietro di Castello.  In 1709 he traveled to Vienna, moved on to Düsseldorf and, in 1716, to London.  He returned to Venice in 1722."

– biographical note from the Royal Collection, Great Britain

Antonio Bellucci
Cupid and Psyche
before 1726
oil on canvas
Staatsgalerie, Würzburg

Antonio Bellucci
Danaë on the Raft
before 1726
oil on canvas
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich

attributed to Antonio Bellucci
St Sebastian
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
Koper Regional Museum, Slovenia

Antonio Bellucci
St Sebastian tended by St Irene
before 1726
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Antonio Bellucci
St Sebastian tended by St Irene
ca. 1716-18
oil on canvas
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

attributed to Antonio Bellucci
Diana
ca. 1716-22
oil on canvas
Northampton Museum and Art Gallery (Northamptonshire)

Antonio Bellucci
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1682
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Antonio Bellucci
Antiochus and Stratonice
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel

attributed to Antonio Bellucci
Fainting Woman supported by Attendants
before 1726
drawing
British Museum

Antonio Bellucci
Laban seeking his Idols
before 1726
oil on canvas
Temple Newsam House, Leeds