Giovanni Domenico Ferretti
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Giovanni Domenico Ferretti was a Rococo Florentine painter.
He was born in 1692 and died in 1768. Giovanni Ferretti (or Giandomenico), according to the contemporary Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, was a pupil of the Bolognese painter, Giuseppe Maria Crespi.
Ferretti was first apprenticed to Francisco Chiusuri and his first important commission was to decorate the Duomo of Imola.
He returned to Florence with a letter of recommendation of Cardinal Gozzadini seeking patronage from Cosimo III de' Medici. He found work in the studio of Tommaso Redi and Sebastiano Galeotti. He traveled to Bologna to work under Felice Torelli and then resettled in Florence in 1715. Ferretti soon joins the Florentine Accademia del Disegno, where he later taught painting but also designed tapestries for the Medicis. He found abundant patronage in fresco painting for the Florentine Abbey, the Chapel of San Guiseppe in the Duomo, and the altar and cupola of the Church of San Salvatore al Vescovo. One of his most important works was the decoration of the ceiling of the Church of Santa Maria of the Carmine, since lost in a fire. Ferreti's fresco style was influenced by Sebastiano Ricci's lively, colorful, and pastel-hued frescoes in the Palazzo Marucelli. Ferretti himself decorated the Palazzo Amati Cellesi in Pistoia, the Palazzo Chigi Sansedoni in Siena, and the Villa Flori in Pescia.
