Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (1708 - 1787)

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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni

Pompeo Girolamo Battoni was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors travelling throughout Italy and reaching Rome during their "Grand Tour" led the artist to specialize in portraits.

Batoni won international fame largely thanks to his customers, mostly British of noble origin, whom he portrayed, often with famous Italian landscapes in the background. Such Grand Tour portraits by Batoni were in British private collections, thus ensuring the genre's popularity in Great Britain. One generation later, Sir Joshua Reynolds would take up this tradition and become the leading English portrait painter. Although Batoni was considered the best Italian painter of his time, contemporary chronicles mention his rivalry with Anton Raphael Mengs.

Wikipedia

Date and place of birt:25 january 1708, Lucca, Italy
Date and place of death:4 february 1787, Rome, Italy
Nationality:Italy
Period of activity: XVIII century
Specialization:Artist, Draftsman, Painter
Genre:Mythological painting, Portrait
Art style:Academism, Classicism

Creators Italy

John Runciman (1744 - 1768)
John Runciman
1744 - 1768
Enrico Albrici (1714 - 1773)
Enrico Albrici
1714 - 1773
Giannino Castiglioni (1884 - 1971)
Giannino Castiglioni
1884 - 1971
Mario Mafai (1902 - 1965)
Mario Mafai
1902 - 1965
Ivan Meštrović (1883 - 1962)
Ivan Meštrović
1883 - 1962
Giuseppe (fra Felice) Cignaroli (1726 - 1796)
Giuseppe (fra Felice) Cignaroli
1726 - 1796
 Parmigianino (1503 - 1540)
Parmigianino
1503 - 1540
Livio Mehus (1630 - 1691)
Livio Mehus
1630 - 1691
Francesco Foschi (1710 - 1780)
Francesco Foschi
1710 - 1780
Carlo Dolci (1616 - 1686)
Carlo Dolci
1616 - 1686
Antonio Calderara (1903 - 1978)
Antonio Calderara
1903 - 1978
Luigi Crespi (1708 - 1779)
Luigi Crespi
1708 - 1779
Corrado Giuseppe Parducci (1900 - 1981)
Corrado Giuseppe Parducci
1900 - 1981
Julius de Blaas (1845 - 1923)
Julius de Blaas
1845 - 1923
Giovanni Luigi Rocco (1701 - 1750)
Giovanni Luigi Rocco
1701 - 1750
Carlo Mollino (1905 - 1973)
Carlo Mollino
1905 - 1973

Creators Academism

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
Franz Schubert
1797 - 1828
Aleksander Makovsky (1869 - 1924)
Aleksander Makovsky
1869 - 1924
Giuseppe de Nittis (1846 - 1884)
Giuseppe de Nittis
1846 - 1884
Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836 - 1912)
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
1836 - 1912
Heinrich Georg Brandes (1803 - 1868)
Heinrich Georg Brandes
1803 - 1868
Nikolai Ivanovich Lieberich (1828 - 1883)
Nikolai Ivanovich Lieberich
1828 - 1883
Heinrich Ferdinand Hofmann (1824 - 1911)
Heinrich Ferdinand Hofmann
1824 - 1911
Leonard Winterovsky (1868 - 1927)
Leonard Winterovsky
1868 - 1927
Johann Sigmund Hitzelberger (1745 - 1829)
Johann Sigmund Hitzelberger
1745 - 1829
Charles Subr (1821 - 1895)
Charles Subr
1821 - 1895
August Friedrich Siegert (1820 - 1883)
August Friedrich Siegert
1820 - 1883
Napoleon Illakovich (1811 - 1861)
Napoleon Illakovich
1811 - 1861
Marceli Gavrilovich Suchorowsky (1840 - 1908)
Marceli Gavrilovich Suchorowsky
1840 - 1908
Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille (1848 - 1912)
Jean Baptiste Édouard Detaille
1848 - 1912
Ernst August Leuteritz (1818 - 1893)
Ernst August Leuteritz
1818 - 1893
Friedrich Pecht (1814 - 1903)
Friedrich Pecht
1814 - 1903
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