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Pozzi, Stefano
(b Rome, 9 Nov 1699; d Rome, 11 June 1768). Italian painter and draughtsman. His father, Giovanni Pozzi (1672–1752), arrived in Rome c. 1690 as an innkeeper and became a renowned ivory carver. He had four sons, all artists: Rocco (1701–74), an engraver; Andrea (1718–69), an ivory carver; Giuseppe (1723–65), a painter, and Stefano, the eldest, who became a pupil of the two best followers of Carlo Maratti: Andrea Procaccini until he left for Spain in 1720, then Agostino Masucci. In 1732 Stefano was admitted to the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon (of which he was Reggente in 1739) and in 1736 to the Accademia di S Luca. He worked primarily for churches, painting, for example, eight ovals (c. 1736) for S Silvestro al Quirinale, Rome (in situ), and the Death of St Joseph (1742; in situ) for S Nome di Maria, Rome. In 1744 he was summoned to Naples by Cardinal Spinelli to decorate the apse of the cathedral restored by Paolo Posi; for the right wall he painted the large oil of SS Januarius and Agrippino Driving out the Saracens (in situ) and on the vault a fresco of a Choir of Angels (in situ). In subsequent commissions he was linked with the architect Luigi Vanvitelli: in 1744 he produced two paintings for the Montemorcino monastery that Vanvitelli had just built for the Olivetans at Perugia (now the Palazzo dell’ Università): an Annunciation (in situ) and the Blessed Bernardino Tolomei among the Plague-stricken (Rome, S Francesca Romana). For the library that Vanvitelli designed for the Palazzo Sciarra–Colonna in Rome, he painted Allegories of the Signs of the Zodiac (in situ).
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