Guido Fontana
Guido Fontana (1490 – 1576), was an Italian maiolica maker and the father of Orazio Fontana.
Biography[]
Fontana was born in 1490 in Castel Durante. He moved to Urbino, where set up shop there when he called himself Fontana. He bought a house with a potter's oven in Borgo di S. Paolo, Urbino.[1]
Fontana designed a maiolica service for Anne de Montmorency in 1535.[2][3] A candlestick from the service is at the Victoria and Albert Museum.[3]
Fontana changed his surname to Durantino in 1553.[2] He died in 1576 in Urbino.[1]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Guido Fontana in the RKD
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Guido Durantino of Urbino". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved November 17, 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Candlestick". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved November 17, 2018.
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Categories:
- 1490 births
- 1576 deaths
- 16th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- People from Urbino
- Italian potters
- Italian painter, 15th-century birth stubs