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<p>Moving from <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=Category:Court_painters&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Court painters (page does not exist)">Category:Court painters</a> to <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=Category:Italian_court_painters&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Italian court painters (page does not exist)">Category:Italian court painters</a> using <a href="/wiki143/index.php?title=C:Help:Cat-a-lot&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="C:Help:Cat-a-lot (page does not exist)">Cat-a-lot</a></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{short description|Italian painter}}<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Giovanni Battista Fontana&#039;&#039;&#039; (1524 – 25 September 1587) was an Italian painter and engraver.<br /> <br /> Fontana&#039;s training made use of the paintings of masters such as [[Titian]] and [[Paolo Veronese|Veronese]]. His artistic output in [[Austria]] which is recorded from 1562, included major work on altarpieces, with countless sketches and engravings. With the assistance of his brother, Giulio Fontana, he painted frescoes in the chapel of [[Schloß Kaiser-Ebersdorf]] in [[Vienna]] in 1562.<br /> <br /> Fontana was born at Ala near [[Verona]], but settled in [[Innsbruck]] in 1573. In 1575 he was appointed [[court painter]] to [[Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria]]. He worked on frescoes for the oratory of the [[Hofkirche, Innsbruck|Hofkirche]], the [[Sphaeristerium|Spheristerion]] in 1573, the [[Silberne Kapelle]] which had been built by Giulio Fontana and where he painted 14 scenes of the Passion in 1576 and lastly decorated a castle chamber in 1578.<br /> <br /> Between 1583 and 1584 he set to work on the ceiling of the dining-hall of [[Schloss Ambras]], depicting Allegories of the [[Zodiac]], the [[Chemical element|Elements]] and the [[Planets]].<br /> <br /> He died at [[Innsbruck]].<br /> <br /> [[File:Giovanni Battista Fontana01.jpg|800px|center|thumb|Ceiling frescoes from [[Schloss Ambras]].]]<br /> <br /> {{commons category|Giovanni Battista Fontana}}<br /> <br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Fontana, Giovanni Battista}}<br /> [[Category:1524 births]]<br /> [[Category:1587 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Italian engravers]]<br /> [[Category:16th-century Italian painters]]<br /> [[Category:Italian male painters]]<br /> [[Category:Italian court painters]]</div>

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