Giovanni Panini

Born: Piacenza, Italy, 17 June 1691

Died: Rome, 21 October 1765

Nationality: Italian


Works by this Artist

Roman Capriccio: The Pantheon and Other Monuments
Giovanni Panini, 1735

Studies

stage design, painting

Career

1711 – moves to Rome

1717 – focuses on city view (vedute) paintings

1719 – becomes member of and professor at Academy of St Luke (Rome)

1732 –becomes member of and professor at French Academy in Rome

Commissions from

Pope Innocent XIII

Important Artworks

Interior of St Peter’s, 1731 (several versions, including at Hermitage, St. Ptersbourgh, Russia)

The Roman Forum, 1735 (Detroit Institute of Art)

Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome, 1757, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

(commissioned by Duke of Choiseul to commemorate his stay in Rome as French ambassador to the Vatican)

Readings

Pannini, G. Pannini. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1992 (in French)

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