Giovanni Panini

The interior of the PantheonFor Pannini.

Giovanni Paolo Pannini (also written as Panini) (June 17, 1691 in Piacenza - October 21, 1765 in Rome) was an Italian painter, architect and landscape designer of the Roman school. by Benedetto Luti.

Biography

Born in 1691 in Piacenza. In this city he studied as a theatrical set designer, until in 1711 he moved to Rome, where he began to study drawing with Benedetto Luti. He achieved fame as a decorator of palaces, including the Villa Patrizi (1718–1725) and the Palazzo de Carolis (1720). As a painter, he is best known for his views of the city of Rome, in which he was interested above all in the oldest remains of the city. His best known work is the interior of the Pantheon in Rome and its "views"; (vedute), paintings that represent a gallery of paintings that in turn each one is a view of the city of Rome.

In 1719 Pannini was admitted to the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. He taught in Rome at the Accademia di San Luca, where he influenced Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

He died in Rome on October 21, 1765.

Works

Pannini stood out as a painter in his time not only because he was the first Italian artist who took an interest in painting Roman ruins, but also because he knew how to combine in his style the heritage of Italian Renaissance painting with the new pictorial trends that They came from France. He was very productive and valued, which is why there are examples of him in many of the main European museums, such as the Prado, or the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid. Even without traveling to Spain, it is known that Filippo Juvara commissioned perspectives for the Lacquer Room of the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso. He painted Biblical scenes such as the Expulsion of the Merchants from the Temple , or Jesus in the probationary pool .

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  Interior of the Basilica of Saint Peter (entry).

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  Picture gallery with views of Ancient Rome (1759).

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  Expulsion of goods(1724).

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  Gallery of paintings with views of the Modern Rome (1758).

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  Jesus throws the merchants of the Temple(h. 1725).