Pietro Antonio Martini
Pietro Antonio Martini (1738–1797) was an Italian painter and engraver, active in a late Baroque style.
Biography
Born at Trecasali, he went to Paris to learn engraving working with Jacques-Philippe Le Bas. He also worked in London. He died in Parma.
One of his etchings are those depicting late 18th century exhibitions. For example, depicting a 1785 Salon exhibition at the Louvre,[1] and an Exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1787[2] are historically instructive for showing the crowded displays of utilized in their day. Other etchings indicated that the admiring crowds may have been a stock image for use in other similar engravings.[3]
Among his etchings:[4]
- Plates after Teniers and other Flemish artists
- Heliodorus driven from the Temple, after Francesco Solimena
- Christ driving the Money-changors from the Temple, after Solimena
- Architectural Ruins, after Robert
- Pleasures of Summer, after Horace Vernet
- View of Spoletto, after Vernet
- View of Porto Ercole, after Vernet
- View of Avignon, after Vernet
- The Augurs, after Salvatore Rosa; etched by Martini, finished by le Bas.
References
- ↑ Metropolitan Museum of Art, engraving of View of the Salon of 1785.
- ↑ Victoria and Albert Museum collection
- ↑ Art Institute of Chicago, engraving of Salon du Louvre of 1787.
- ↑ Spooner, Shearjashub (1873). A Biographical History of the Fine Arts, Being Memoirs of the Lives and Works of Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects. Philadelphia: G. Gebbie. p. page 527..