Martin Altomonte (1657–1745)

• Was born Johann Martin Hohenberg.
• Altomonte was an Italian Baroque painter of Austrian descent.
• Martino Altomonte (Johann Martin Hohenberg) was born in a family of painters.
• Hohenberg's father was born in the Tyrol and emigrated to Naples.
• At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to Giovanni Battista Gaulli in Rome.
• Later he trained under the guidance of Carlo Maratti.

• In 1684 Hohenberg became the court painter of John III Sobieski, king of Poland, and changed his name to Altomonte upon the occasion.

• His son Bartolomeo Altomonte, also a painter, was born in 1694.

• Altomonte moved to Vienna c. 1699-1702, where he remained for the rest of his life, creating many frescoes and altarpieces.

• In 1707 he was appointed a teaching member of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste.
• In 1716 he painted the ceiling frescoes in the Lower Belvedere in Vienna.

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