Francesco Conti

Francesco Conti (14 March 1681 – 8 December 1760) was an Italian Baroque painter, primarily of religious scenes.

Biography He was born in Florence to Carlo and Umiltà Ciabilli, and was probably a relative of the painter Giovanni Camillo Ciabilli. When or why he adopted the name "Conti" is unknown.

His formative years were spent in the artistic circle of Simone Pignoni then, when he was eighteen, he went to Rome, where he was a student of Giovanni Maria Morandi and Carlo Maratta. He also painted portraits for the Albani family.

He produced his first known canvases in 1709, for the Riccardi pavilion. These depicted the virtues of Fame, Faith, and Peace and are among his very few secular works.

His masterpiece is generally considered to be the Madonna and Child with Saint Sylvester I, Saint Paul and Saint Catherine of Alexandria (1738), which was commissioned for the Church of Sant'Andrea by the . In his later years, he was also active in Pisa. He died in 1760 in Florence.

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