15 Facts About Francesco Podesti

Francesco Podesti was an Italian painter, active in a Romantic style.

Francesco Podesti was prolific in his large canvases on historical subjects.

Francesco Podesti is best known for his fresco work, including those in the Hall of the Immacolata in the Vatican Museum.

Francesco Podesti was born in Ancona to a family of modest means; his father Joseph, was a tailor.

Francesco Podesti was to make variants of this painting for the Prince Galitzin and count Paolo Tosi of Brescia.

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Francesco Podesti refused the offer of a professorship at the Albertina Royal Academy at Turin.

Francesco Podesti dedicated himself to the execution of a series of portraits of nobles and cardinals Lombard and Roman.

Francesco Podesti then moved into a large studio where he worked until 1869.

In 1849, while the brief Roman Republic was established, Francesco Podesti joined the battalion of the university defending the city of Rome from sieges by French forces.

In 1855, the year of the proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX, Francesco Podesti was commissioned to paint the Hall of the Immaculate Conception in the Vatican, depicting events leading to the announcement.

Francesco Podesti accepted the commission as a great responsibility, because the dining fresco is contiguous to Raphael Rooms.

Francesco Podesti however, was adamant, referring to the obligation of fidelity to historical reality.

Francesco Podesti's wife died in 1865, and Podesti realized the only major work of sculpture for her burial plot in the Campo Verano.

Francesco Podesti had a serene old age among friends and family, being tirelessly active.

Francesco Podesti was 80 years old when he ascended the scaffolding to fresco the four evangelists on the spandrels of the dome of the church of the Blessed Sacrament in Ancona.