Federiko Benković

Federico Bencovich (; 1677 – 8 July 1753), also known as Federighetto or Ferighetto Dalmatino among others, was a Croatian-Italian late Baroque painter from Venetian Dalmatia. Although was among prominent painters of his era in North Italy, Germany and Austria, being a link between Venetian and Austrian Baroque, Bencovich's art was mostly rediscovered and valued only since the early 20th century.

Origin Federico Bencovich (as he signed his own name ) was born in 1677, but his exact birthplace is unknown, however usually is considered to have been somewhere in Venetian Dalmatia. It was considered as it could have been either in Omiš, Šibenik, the island of Brač, Dubrovnik, Verona or possibly Venice itself. According to information from early catalogs and notes on paintings, he was born in Venice to a Dalmatian father, in Verona (still considered of foreign origin According to the letter dated 24 March 1724 found in Milan, his father's name was Julije, and had a brother Leopold in Split (who was father of later Jerolim from Omiš), whom made his representative of property in Dalmatia. is probably the painting that disappeared from the castle of Pommersfelden at the beginning of the 19th century. Until that time, the painting was attributed to Piazzetta. The authors of the epoch agree that Bencovich was a talented artist, had a good school in Bologna and had youthful success, but they disagree about the rest. For example, art historian and collector Marcello Oretti (1786) from Bologna, repeated very critical reception by Venetian Pietro Guarienti (1752) which noted his "new and extravagant way of painting, which dragged him from the good path, which led him to perfection, and gave in a way, which did not please others except him, and made him lose credit, and acquired reputation".

However, some paintings which were credited to Bencovich, in the late 20th and early 21st century were sometimes re-assigned to Piazzetta (Venere e Marte, Pordenone), Tiepolo (Sacra Famiglia e tre santi francescani, Milan; San Francesco in meditazione, Venezia; Fauno seduto con clava, Milan), Giovanni Battista Crosato (Il miracolo dell'ostia, Pordenone), Josef Ignaz Mildorfer (Socrate incitato ad evadere dal carcere, Sibiu), and Pittoni (San Giuseppe con Gesù Bambino, Udine). In 2010, two then unpublished paintings were attributed to Bencovich, David and Il concerto di due pastorelli.

Selected works Brescia, Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Madonna in trono con santi (sketch) Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Madonna/Vergine e santi; Maddalena, 1730 – 1735 Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Il beato Pietro Gambacorta, engraving, c. 1728 Borgo San Giacomo, Verolanuova, Brescia, Chiesa del Castello: Deposizione/Cristo deposto adorato da santi, c. 1735 Crema, Church of the Holy Trinity: Estasi di S. Francesco da Paola, 1724 Forlì, Palazzo Orselli Foschi, Giunone (Juno) Pommersfelden, Weißenstein Castle, Hagar and Ishmael in the desert; The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, c. 1715. Senonches, France, parish, Crucifixion of St. Andrew and Saints, c. 1725 Stuttgart, Staats-Galerie, Adoration of the Magi, c. 1725 Tomo, Feltre, parish, Fuga in Egitto, c. 1709 Venice, Church of S. Sebastiano: Il beato Pietro Gambacorta, c. 1726 Venice, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Autoritratto, c. 1735 Venice, Museo Correr, Fuga in Egitto, drawings, c. 1720 Vienna, Albertina: Departing for Egypt, Rest while escaping in Egypt, c. 1745; drawings: St. Francis of Paola; Ecstasy of St. Francis of Assisi; Death of St. Benedict Zagreb, Strossmayer Gallery, Sacrifizio d'Isacco, 1720

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