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Domenico Fedeli, known as Maggiotto (also attested as Magiotto or Majotto; Venice, 1712 – Venice, 16 April 1794), was an Italian painter. From 1750 he joined the College of Painters and from 1756 he became a member of the Venetian Academy of Painting and Sculpture, at the invitation of Tiepolo where he held administrative positions. Read the full biography

Domenico Fedeli, known as Maggiotto (also attested as Magiotto or Majotto; Venice, 1712 – Venice, 16 April 1794), was an Italian painter. From 1750 he joined the College of Painters and from 1756 he became a member of the Venetian Academy of Painting and Sculpture, at the invitation of Tiepolo where he held administrative positions. His artistic life can therefore be divided into three distinct periods: the youthful one at the Piazzetta school, the intermediate one, during his maturity, with the inability to continue independently with his own artistic line, and the third, at an advanced age, with the revival of youthful models in an Arcadian key. Upon the death of his master, Maggiotto, morally disoriented by the loss of his artistic guidance, developed a tendency that artistically translated into an impersonal eclecticism. Under the influence of Giuseppe Angeli, he created, in very light tones, the portrait of Saint Nicholas and the blessed Arcangelo Caneti (1754) for the church of San Salvatore, already sketched by Piazzetta; he also produced two of the Stations of the Cross (1755) for Santa Maria del Giglio. In his activity, a certain lack of experience with large-scale works is however evident, in particular in the rather cold and disunited quality of some works such as the Altarpiece of San Bartolomeo (1758-9) in San Bartolomeo a Valnogaredo, near of Padua.