Artist: Annibale Fontana (1540 - 1587)
Nationality: Italian
Movement: Mannerism
Media: Sculpture,Engraving
Influences:

Biography:
Annibale Fontana first worked as a medalist and engraver in Milan and joined the Accademia della Val di Blenio. As a result of this association, Fontana received numerous commissions from high-ranking patrons and intellectuals. He visited Rome where he was influence by Michelangelo and then traveled to Palermo in 1570 where he carved large-scale marble reliefs for their cathedral. Fontana then returned to Milan and started working on the church of Santa Maria presso Santo Celso. He worked there from 1574 to 1587 and his style changed from Mannerism to classicism. He died at the age of forty-seven in 1587.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Anonymous, Fontana Girl, Sunkist, Fontana Citrus Assn., Fontana, California, circa 1930 - 1940
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Pair of Drug Jars
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Anonymous, Boyhood Brand Grapefruit, Fontana Land Company, Fontana, California, circa 1930 - 1940
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Francesco Bartolozzi, Portrait Of Annibale Carracci, after Annibale Carracci, circa 1764
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Annibale Carracci, Copy in reverse after the etching by Annibale Carracci, the Christ of Caprarola, 16 - 17th century
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Geraldo Fontana, The Nativity, 1579
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Annibale Carracci, copy in reverse after the etching by Annibale Carracci, the Madonna della Scodella, early 17th century
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Eugene Berman, La Fontana, 19th - 20th century
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Carlo Cesio (or Carlo Cesius), Dedication for the series Galeria Nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma...da Annibale Carracci, after Annibale Carracci, 17th century
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Carlo Cesio (or Carlo Cesius), Frontispiece for the series Galeria Nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma...da Annibale Carracci, after Annibale Carracci, 17th century
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Carlo Cesio (or Carlo Cesius), Bacchus and Ariadne, pl. 13 from the series Galeria Nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma...da Annibale Carracci, after Annibale Carracci, 17th century
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Carlo Cesio (or Carlo Cesius), The Triumph of Galatea, pl.9 from the series Galeria Nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma...da Annibale Carracci, after Annibale Carracci, 17th century
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Giambattista Fontana, The Scourging of Christ, 16th century
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Giambattista Fontana, St John the Baptist Preaching, 16th century
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Annibale Carracci, Christ of Caprarola, 1597
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Carlo Cesio (or Carlo Cesius), Andromeda Bound to a Rock, pl.11 from the series Galeria Nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma...da Annibale Carracci, after Annibale Carracci, 17th century
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Carlo Cesio (or Carlo Cesius), Aurora Abducting Cephalus, pl.11 from the series Galeria Nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma...da Annibale Carracci, after Annibale Carracci, 17th century
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Carlo Cesio (or Carlo Cesius), Salmacis and Hermaphrodite; Cupid and Pan, pl. 14 from the series Galeria Nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma...da Annibale Carracci, after Annibale Carracci, 17th century
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Carlo Cesio (or Carlo Cesius), Andromeda Bound to a Rock, pl.11 from the series Galeria Nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma...da Annibale Carracci, after Annibale Carracci, 17th century
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Annibale Carracci, Landscape, 17th century
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Annibale Carracci, Baptism, 17th century
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Alberto Fontana, Warriors with their horses, 16th century
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Annibale Carracci, The Crowning with Thorns, 1606
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Annibale Carracci, Madonna of the Swallow, 1587
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Annibale Carracci, The Holy Family, 1590
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Pietro Fontana, Corinna Poetessa, 18th - 19th century
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Pietro Fontana, Woman at a Cradle with three Children, after Canova, 18 - 19th century
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Annibale Carracci, Adoration of the Shepherds, circa 1606
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Francesco Bartolozzi, Fortune, after Annibale Carracci, 1765
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Annibale Carracci, Pietý (the Christ of Caprarola), 1597
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Carlo Cesio (or Carlo Cesius), Leander Swimming Across the Hellespont to Hero; Pan Pursuing Syrinx, pl. 17 from the series Galeria Nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma...da Annibale Carracci, after Annibale Carracci, 17th century
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Carlo Cesio (or Carlo Cesius), Perseus Turning His Enemies to Stone with the Head of Medusa, pl.12 from the series Galeria Nel Palazzo Farnese in Roma...da Annibale Carracci, after Annibale Carracci, 17th century
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Annibale Carracci, A Toilette, 16th - 17th century
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Annibale Carracci, Christ Crowned with Thorns, 1606
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F. Torond, Landscape, after Annibale Carracci, 19th century
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Giambattista Fontana, The Defeat of the Antemnaeans, pl.16 from the series The Story of Romulus and Remus, 1575
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Annibale Carracci, Study for St. John Decapitated, 16th century
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Annibale Carracci, Female Satyr, early 17th century
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Annibale Carracci, Lute Player, late 16th century
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Annibale Carracci, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, circa 1591

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (18)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 10 XX (Jujikan): Japanese Sound Art
These recorded sound pieces will play on a rotating basis during regular Museum hours in the Phyllis Wattis Theater, in the same format as last year's Jukebox program of recorded acoustic art and experimental music by John Cage, Alvin Curran, B...
Auckland Art Gallery: Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy
The show includes Maria Abramovic and Ulay, Pat Brassington, Steve Carr, Derrick Cherrie, Julian Dashper, Jae Hoon Lee, Luise Fong, Lucio Fontana, Douglas Gordon, Terrence Handscomb, Heavy Industries, Andrea Low, Fiona Pardington, Peter Peryer, An...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing
Timeless Beauty examines the origins, development, and ultimate dissolution of the drawing style of extreme linearity favored by artists working in the Neoclassical mode. Beginning in the 1750’s and lasting into the early decades of the 1800’s, arti...
Visconti Tower, Camaver Kunsthaus: Ancient Palaces: Works by 22 International Artists
Among the aritsts selected is Luise Andersen. Andersen, who lives in Fontana, California, will exhibither work "Within Self". The artists write about the work, "Conflict within self... induced by haunting presence..and past..images appearing..push...
Kettle's Yard Gallery: Enrico Castellani Work from 1958 – 1970
In 1959, Castellani produced the first of his structured surfaces by putting nuts behind the canvas to form reliefs in order to emphasise the physicality of the surface as well as the dynamism of space. He went on to develop the technique that ...
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College: Inaugural Exhibtion: S.O.S. - Scenes of Sounds
Inventions such as the telephone, tape recorder, loudspeaker, radio, Walkman, compact disk, internet radio, and computer-synthesized speech have produced dra...
Biennial of Ceramics in Contemporary Art: The Happy Face of Globalization
In an homage to the twentieth-century avantgarde tradition, some of the prime examples of which found an outlet in Albisola, the exhibition presents, along with the works of the invited artists, a selection of works in ceramics produced by ...
Photofusion Photography Centre: Eulogy to Beauty:
The concern here is not with nudity for its own sake, but with the aesthetics of beauty. However, it is a commonplace that the male - and indeed often female - gaze finds its target for this aesthetic in the feminine form, and the erotic represent...
Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst: Jacques Charlier: Belgian Aspects of Flanders
Charlier is a Belgian artist who is internationally appreciated. Until now the main impulses behind this have come from Flanders. In fact few curators in Wallonia support him. This fact provides the theme for the S.M.A.K. exhibition. Charlier wan...
van Gogh Museum: Go(gh) Modern
The presentation is subdivided into four sections, each featuring a different aspect of Van Gogh's affect on contemporary art, and includes paintings, sculptures and videos by various artists and movements - from Appel and Kiefer to Nauman and War...
Community Writers Association: PRODUCERS LEAVE HOLLYWOOD: PROVIDENCE LOOKS DIVINE FOR SPEAKERS AT NEW ENGLAND SCREENWRITERS CONFERENCE
This years award winning line-up of featured guests and key-note speakers include: writer D.C. Fontana (Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Waltons, High Chaparral, Bonanza, The Big Valley), independent producer Steve Fassler (Dunkin Donut...
De Appel: The World is Fine, We Ourselves Unfortunately Somewhat Less: Ritsaert ten Cate
With works by: Tiong Ang/Roy Villevoye, Erzebet Baerveldt, Francis Bacon, Jan Banning, Johannes Bosboom, Joost van den Broek, Ritsaert ten Cate, Merlijn Doomernik, Marlene Dumas, Albert Eckhout, Ger van Elk, Lucio Fontana, Dominique Ghesquière, Gi...
Centro Studi ed Archivio della Comunicazione: Alberto Sughi Retrospective Collection
Alberto Sughi was born in Cesena in 1928. A self-taught painter, by the end of his formative years he had become one of the greatest Italian artists of his generation. He started painting in the early 1950s, choosing realism in the debate between ...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: The Splendor of 18th-Century Rome
A strong sense of their city's cultural centrality encouraged Rome's 18th-century civic and religious leaders to construct or embellish numerous churches, palaces, fountains, public plazas (piazze), gardens and gallerie...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Fondazione Prada: Enrico Castellani
Curated by Germano Celant, the exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the artist and contains about seventy works from public and private collections both in Italy and abroad. The exhibition is designed to offer an in-depth account of...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...

Further Artwork and Information:

Annibale Fontana Online
Thais - 1200 anni di scultura italiana - Fontana Annibale
Annibale Fontana (Getty Museum)
Annibale Fontana
Annibale Fontana / Adoring Angel / 1583-1584
Annibale Fontana / Mithridatum Drug Jar / about 1580 - 1590
Thais - Fontana Annibale - LAssunta
artnet.com: Resource Library: Fontana, Annibale
Mithridatum Drug Jar (Getty Museum)
Mezzi di Trasporto

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