Francesco Albotto

{{Short description|Italian painter}}

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Francesco Albotto (1721–1757) was an Italian painter from Venice, mainly producing vedute. He was a pupil of Michele Marieschi. After Marieschi's death, Albotto married his widow and took over his shop,{{cite book | author = Juergen Schulz | title = The New Palaces of Medieval Venice | publisher = Penn State Press | year = 2004 | isbn = 0-271-02351-1 | pages = 145–146}} and continued to produce paintings in a similar style until his own death, which has led to some problems in attributing paintings to Marieschi versus Albotto.{{cite encyclopedia | title = Michele (Giovanni) Marieschi | encyclopedia = The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century | publisher = Yale University Press | year = 1994 | isbn = 0-300-06186-2 | page = 466}}

==Works==

• Veduta del Molo e del Bacino di San Marco, Sotheby's, New York,
• San Giuseppe di Castello (1745), oil canvas, private collection
• Campo Santi Giovanni
• Molo San Marco
• Capriccio con obelisco, oil canvas, Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergame,
• Capriccio con obelisco e arco gotico, oil canvas, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venise,
• Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, oil canvas, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venise,
• View of grand canal with the Santa Maria della Salute church, oil canvas,
• View of the camp and doors of the Arsenal (1743–1746),{{cite web|title=Complete list of (after) Francesco Albotto's oil paintings|url=http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/(after)-Francesco-Albotto/Complete-list-of-oil-paintings.html|website=1st-art-gallery|publisher=1st-Art-Gallery Inc.|accessdate=1 December 2015}}
• View of the Piazzetta, with the Palazzo Ducale and the Biblioteca Marciana, Westbury Fine Art ltd, oil on canvas

==Bibliography==

• R. Toledano, Michele Marieschi: l'opera completa, Milan, 1988,
• Dario Succi, Marieschi: tra Canaletto e Guardi, catalogue, Turin, 1989,
• M. Manzelli, Michele Marieschi e il suo alter-ego Francesco Albotto, Venise, 1991,
• Domenico Sedini, Francesco Albotto, online catalogue Artgate of the Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC-BY-SA.
• Miklós Boskovits, Giorgio FossaluzzaLa collezione Cagnola. I dipinti, editor: Nomos Edizioni, Busto Arsizio, 1998.{{cite web|title=Francesco Albotto, 1722—1758, Italian|url=http://www.openartcollection.com/-/s/?i=963ff5fa2dfffe626dd1fc57501b92e772511e85&t=artist|website=openartcollection|publisher=The Open Art Collection Inc.|accessdate=1 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208050959/http://www.openartcollection.com/-/s/?i=963ff5fa2dfffe626dd1fc57501b92e772511e85&t=artist|archive-date=8 December 2015|url-status=dead}}