Francesco Tironi

Francesco Tironi (circa 1745–1797) was an Italian painter, active in painting vedute of Venice in a Neoclassical style.

Among his works are a vedute of the ''Riva degli Schiavoni''; of a ''Large Crowd in a Piazza before the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo; of the ''Isola Santa Maria della Grazia, Venice''; and of the ''Meeting of Pope Pius VI and the Doge on the Island of ''San Giorgio in Alga'' He also provided the drawings for Antonio Sandi's twenty-four engravings (1779) of islands in the Venetian Lagoon. Many of the engravings depict thriving communities in islands that are now desolate. Provided by Wikipedia