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Bonechi, Matteo
(b Florence, 8 Nov 1669; d Florence, 27 Feb 1756). Italian painter. He was a prolific artist, most successful as a fresco painter, who worked mainly in and around Florence. His early years are undocumented, and it is not clear with whom he trained; Gabburri (Florence, Bib. N. Cent., MS. E.B.9.5, iv, 62v-63) mentions Francesco Botti (1640–1710) as his teacher, while Luigi Lanzi specifies Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani. He was certainly strongly influenced by Sagrestani, from whom he may have found it difficult to free himself. The works of his maturity, however, are highly personal and reflect the carefree mood of 18th-century Florence, which responded to the lighter influences of the French Rococo. Apart from studies for wall decorations, the only works on canvas for which dates are documented are two tondi for S Jacopo Sopr’ Arno, Florence: Abraham with the Three Angels and a scene from the Life of St Francis (both 1718). His documented frescoes are the dome of S Verdiana (1716) at Castelfiorentino, the domes of S Jacopo Sopr’ Arno (1718) and the Conservatorio di S Agnese (1719–20), both in Florence, the trompe l’oeil ceiling in the shape of a sail for the Compagnia di S Agostino (1724) at Legnaia and the mural decoration of S Maria del Suffragio al Pellegrino (1734–5), near Florence.
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