Prospero Fontana
(1512–1597) Italian painter (1512-1597)
Prospero Fontana (1512–1597) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Prospero Fontana belongs to the chapter ‘Mannerism’ in this site’s history of art.
Prospero Fontana was born in Bologna and died in Rome. Prospero Fontana studied under Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da Imola. Wikidata associates Prospero Fontana with Mannerism. The students included Agostino Carracci, Ludovico Carracci, Denys Calvaert, and Lorenzo Sabbatini.
The best-known works include ‘Adoration of the Magi’ and ‘Entombment of Christ’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 13 works by Prospero Fontana with free images. The dated works span the years 1540–1569. Works by Prospero Fontana are held by several collections, among them Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, Gemäldegalerie, and Nationalmuseum. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Mannerism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Mirza Ali, Mir Sayyid Ali, Carlo Portelli, Cornelis Massijs, and Giorgio Vasari.