Giovanni Paolo Panini
| Giovanni Paolo Panini | |
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 Portrait of Panini by Louis Gabriel Blanchet | |
| Born |
17 June 1691 Piacenza |
| Died | 21 October 1765 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Field | painter |
| Works | veduta |
Giovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765) was a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ("view painters"). As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of Rome, in which he took a particular interest in the city's antiquities. Among his most famous works are his view of the interior of the Pantheon (on behalf of Francesco Algarotti), and his vedute—paintings of picture galleries containing views of Rome. Most of his works, specially those of ruins, have a fanciful and unreal embellishment characteristic of capriccio themes. In this they resemble the capricci of Marco Ricci. Panini also painted portraits, including one of Pope Benedict XIV.[1]
Biography
As a young man, Panini trained in his native town of Piacenza, under Giuseppe Natali and Andrea Galluzzi, and later the stage designer Francesco Galli-Bibiena. In 1711, he moved to Rome, where he studied drawing with Benedetto Luti.
In Rome Panini became famous as a decorator of palaces, including the Villa Patrizi (1719–1725), the Palazzo de Carolis (1720), and the Seminario Romano (1721–1722). In 1719, Panini was admitted to the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. He taught in Rome at the Accademia di San Luca and the Académie de France, where he influenced Jean-Honoré Fragonard. In 1754, he served as the principal of the Accademia di San Luca. Panini died in Rome on 21 October 1765.[1]
Legacy
Panini's studio included Hubert Robert and his son Francesco Panini. His style influenced other vedutisti, such as his pupil Antonio Joli, as well as Canaletto and Bernardo Bellotto, who sought to meet the need of visitors for painted "postcards" depicting the Italian environs.[citation needed] Some British landscape painters, such as Marlow, Skelton and Wright of Derby, also imitated his capricci.[citation needed]
Gallery
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The interior of the Pantheon, Rome
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A Capriccio of the Roman Forum (1741)
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Ancient Rome (1757)
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Modern Rome (1757)
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The Lottery at Palazzo Montecitorio, now in the National Gallery, London
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St. Peter's Basilica, from the entrance
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Adoration of the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi (1755), shown here at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City
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View of the Colosseum (1747), at The Walters Art Museum.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anna Maria Ferrari. "Panini, Giovanni Paolo." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 27 March 2010.
External links
Media related to Giovanni Paolo Pannini at Wikimedia Commons- Art and the empire city: New York, 1825-1861, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Panini (see index)
- Capriccio of Roman Ruins with Figures, from the Permanent Collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
Further reading
- Arisi, Ferdinando (1986). Gian Paolo Panini e i fasti della Roma del '700. [Gian Paolo Panini and events in 18th c. Rome.] (in Italian). ISBN 88-7003-016-4.
- Arisi, Ferdinando,Giovanni Paolo Panini 1691-1765, Milano, 1993.
- Horak, Marco, Ritornato a Piacenza il dipinto di Panini passato all'asta lo scorso anno a Londra: si tratta dell' "opera prima", pendant di quello esposto alla Glauco Lombardi di Parma, in "Strenna Piacentina 2013", Piacenza, 2013.
- Horak, Marco, Quell'opera prima di Panini gemella del dipinto esposto al Lombardi di Parma, in "L'Urtiga - Quaderni di cultura Piacentina", Piacenza, n. 4, 2013.
- Horak, Marco, L'opera prima del Panini in una collezione privata, in "Panorama Musei", anno XVIII, n.3, dicembre 2013
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