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

Giovanni Battista Discepoli (1590 - 1660)
Giovanni Battista Discepoli
1590 - 1660
Andrea Carlo Lucchesi (1859 - 1925)
Andrea Carlo Lucchesi
1859 - 1925
Orazio De Ferrari (1606 - 1650)
Orazio De Ferrari
1606 - 1650
Angelo Pavan (1893 - 1945)
Angelo Pavan
1893 - 1945
Nanni Valentini (1932 - 1985)
Nanni Valentini
1932 - 1985
Jacopo Amigoni (1682 - 1752)
Jacopo Amigoni
1682 - 1752
Giambattista Pittoni (1687 - 1767)
Giambattista Pittoni
1687 - 1767
Antonio Jolie (1700 - 1777)
Antonio Jolie
1700 - 1777
Lorenzo Lotto (1480 - 1556)
Lorenzo Lotto
1480 - 1556
Giuseppe Mazzolini (1806 - 1876)
Giuseppe Mazzolini
1806 - 1876
Benedetto Di Bindo (1380 - 1417)
Benedetto Di Bindo
1380 - 1417
Antonio Rizzi (1869 - 1940)
Antonio Rizzi
1869 - 1940
Alfredo Volpi (1896 - 1988)
Alfredo Volpi
1896 - 1988
Alessandro Gherardini (1655 - 1723)
Alessandro Gherardini
1655 - 1723
Roberto Pamio (1937 - 2021)
Roberto Pamio
1937 - 2021
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1466 - 1516)
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
1466 - 1516

Creators Academism

Maksim Nikiforovich Vorobyov (1787 - 1855)
Maksim Nikiforovich Vorobyov
1787 - 1855
Carl Frithjof Smith (1859 - 1917)
Carl Frithjof Smith
1859 - 1917
Alfred Morgan (1836 - 1924)
Alfred Morgan
1836 - 1924
Jan Griffier II (1688 - 1750)
Jan Griffier II
1688 - 1750
James Pradier (1790 - 1852)
James Pradier
1790 - 1852
Matthew Cotes Wyatt (1777 - 1862)
Matthew Cotes Wyatt
1777 - 1862
Carl Vilhelm Balsgaard (1812 - 1893)
Carl Vilhelm Balsgaard
1812 - 1893
Bela Lyon Pratt (1867 - 1917)
Bela Lyon Pratt
1867 - 1917
William Turner (1789 - 1862)
William Turner
1789 - 1862
Leon Pohle (1841 - 1908)
Leon Pohle
1841 - 1908
Carl Friedrich Heinzmann (1795 - 1846)
Carl Friedrich Heinzmann
1795 - 1846
Sergei Vasilevich Chekhonin (1878 - 1936)
Sergei Vasilevich Chekhonin
1878 - 1936
Zhao Yong (1289 - 1360)
Zhao Yong
1289 - 1360
Theodoros Vryzakis (1814 - 1878)
Theodoros Vryzakis
1814 - 1878
Cesare Tallone (1853 - 1919)
Cesare Tallone
1853 - 1919
Oswald Achenbach (1827 - 1905)
Oswald Achenbach
1827 - 1905
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