Francesco Fidanza

{{Short description|Italian painter (1747–1819)}}

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| name = Francesco Fidanza

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| caption = Mediterranean scene with fishermen in front of a cannon shooting galley by Francesco Fidanza

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| birth_date = 1747

| birth_place = Rome

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1819|02|07|1747||}}

| death_place = Milan

| nationality = Italian

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| occupation = painter

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Francesco Fidanza (1747–1819)[http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/fidanza_francesco/artist/9780/ arcadja auctions][http://www.artfact.com/artist/fidanza-francesco-x3pmclmf1k artfact.com][http://www.sothebys.com/en/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2011/tableaux-anciens-et-du-xixe-sicle#/r=/en/ecat.fhtml.PF1109.html+r.m=/en/ecat.lot.PF1109.html/15/ Sotheby's auction site][http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/20016/lot/72/ Bonham's auction site] was an Italian painter, whose present legacy is based mainly on his landscapes.

Fidanza was born in Rome. He studied under Vernet and Charles-François Lacroix de Marseille (1700–1782). For Eugène Beauharnais he painted the Italian harbors, two of which, Ancona and Malamocco, with a landscape, are in the gallery of the Castle Brera at Milan. Fidanza died in Milan in 1819.