ZANETTI, Anton Maria II

The frescoes on the fa�ade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, executed by Giorgione and Titian between 1505 and 1508, deteriorated rather quickly. However, 1n 1755, Anton Maria Zanetti was still able to make drawings of three images by Giorgione, - a seated man, a seated woman, and a nude - which he would later translate into engravings that appear in the book “Varie pitture a fresco de’ principali maestri veneziani” (Various fresco paintings by the principal Venetian masters) published in 1760.

The picture shows the Seated Man after Giorgione.

The frescoes on the fa�ade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, executed by Giorgione and Titian between 1505 and 1508, deteriorated rather quickly. However, 1n 1755, Anton Maria Zanetti was still able to make drawings of three images by Giorgione, - a seated man, a seated woman, and a nude - which he would later translate into engravings that appear in the book “Varie pitture a fresco de’ principali maestri veneziani” (Various fresco paintings by the principal Venetian masters) published in 1760.

The picture shows the Seated Woman after Giorgione.

The Fondaco dei Tedeschi, which formed the headquarters of the German merchant community of Venice, occupies a prominent site on the Grand Canal, immediately next to the Rialto Bridge. The decoration of the principal, western fa�ade of the Fondaco was entrusted to Giorgione, who is documented as having completed his task before the autumn of 1508. His work is known mainly through a set of eighteenth-century etchings, and all that survives of the originals is a single ghostly fragment of a standing female nude. The etchings show a series of male and female nudes, which were arranged in broad friezes above the first- and second-floor windows.