Francesco Tironi

Francesco Tironi 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 of islands in the Venetian Lagoon. Many of the engravings depict thriving communities in islands that are now desolate.