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Pietro Antonio Rotari
Italian painter , (b. 1707, Verona, d. 1762, St. Petersburg)
Italian painter. His artistic career began as a youthful distraction, but his talent quickly became apparent, and he entered the studio of Antonio Balestra in Verona, remaining there until he was 18. He spent the years 1725-7 in Venice and then moved c. 1728 to Rome, where he stayed for four years as a student of Francesco Trevisani. Between 1731 and 1734 he studied with Francesco Solimena in Naples before returning to Verona, where he set up his own studio and school. His most notable early independent works are multi-figured altarpieces (e.g. the Four Martyrs, 1745; Verona, church of the Ospedale di S Giacomo), which emulate 17th-century Roman and Neapolitan works. However, he also studied the smaller, more intimate paintings of Roman Baroque artists, and these influenced his later works. He fell victim to the wanderlust that appears to have been endemic to 18th-century Venetian painters, and c. 1751 he travelled to Vienna, where he was able to study works by Jean-Etienne Liotard, whose clean pictorial smoothness impressed him. He later moved to Dresden
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Painting ID:: 75753
Portrait of Grand Duchess Yekaterina Alexeyevna
1761
Oil on canvas
60 ?? 48 cm (23.6 ?? 18.9 in)
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Painting ID:: 76783
Maria Antonia of Bavaria
ca. 1755(1755)
Oil on canvas
107 ?? 86 cm (42.1 ?? 33.9 in)
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Painting ID:: 77522
Portrait of Grand Duchess Yekaterina Alexeyevna
Date 1761 (?)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 60 ?? 48 cm (23.6 ?? 18.9 in)
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Painting ID:: 77560
Princess Elisabeth of Saxe
ca. 1755(1755)
Oil on canvas
107 ?? 86.5 cm (42.1 ?? 34.1 in)
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Painting ID:: 77570
Portrait of a Young Girl, La Penitente
18th century
Oil on canvas
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Pietro Antonio Rotari
Italian painter , (b. 1707, Verona, d. 1762, St. Petersburg)
Italian painter. His artistic career began as a youthful distraction, but his talent quickly became apparent, and he entered the studio of Antonio Balestra in Verona, remaining there until he was 18. He spent the years 1725-7 in Venice and then moved c. 1728 to Rome, where he stayed for four years as a student of Francesco Trevisani. Between 1731 and 1734 he studied with Francesco Solimena in Naples before returning to Verona, where he set up his own studio and school. His most notable early independent works are multi-figured altarpieces (e.g. the Four Martyrs, 1745; Verona, church of the Ospedale di S Giacomo), which emulate 17th-century Roman and Neapolitan works. However, he also studied the smaller, more intimate paintings of Roman Baroque artists, and these influenced his later works. He fell victim to the wanderlust that appears to have been endemic to 18th-century Venetian painters, and c. 1751 he travelled to Vienna, where he was able to study works by Jean-Etienne Liotard, whose clean pictorial smoothness impressed him. He later moved to Dresden
. Related Artists to Pietro Antonio Rotari: | lorens pasch d.y | Arnoldus Bloemers | Carl Wagner | Allen Smith | olof w. nilsson |
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