Antonio Joli

Antonio Joli or Ioli (1700 – 29 April 1777) was an Italian painter of vedute and capricci.

Biography

Born in Modena, he first was apprenticed to Rafaello Rinaldi. He then studied in Rome under Giovanni Paolo Panini, and in the studios of the Galli da Bibbiena family of scene-painters. He became a painter of stage sets in Modena and Perugia. In 1732 he moved to Venice, where he worked as stage-painter for opera productions at the Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo and the Teatro San Samuele of the Grimani family. In 1742 he went to Dresden, and then to London (1744–48) and Madrid (1750–54).^[1] In London, he decorated the Richmond mansion of John James Heidegger, then the director of the King's Theatre in the Haymarket.^[2] Joli returned to Venice in 1754, where he became one of the 36 founding members of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. He moved to the Bourbon court of Naples in 1761,^[1] and died there on 29 April 1777.

References

Further reading

• Links, J. G. (1977). Canaletto and his Patrons. London: Paul Elek. p. 99. 
• Grove encyclopedia biography on Artnet

Gallery

The departure of the nuncio Stoppani from the Doge's Palace after his audience; National Gallery of Art, Washington  The greeting of Nuncio Stoppani, 1741; National Gallery of Art, Washington  Rome, A View of the Forum with the Campo Vaccino, the church of Santa Francesca and the Colosseum  Prospect of London

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Antonio Joli.

• Antonio Joli at Wikigallery.org
• Italian Paintings, Venetian School, a collection catalog containing information about Joli and his works (see index; plate 39).