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Pompeo Batoni attr.

FOR SALE ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 18° secolo - 1700 Luxury Art Gallery Vattaro Style: Alta epoca 393457682034 Length:73.5cm Height:95.5cm Material:olio su tela Price:8500€

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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Lucca, 25 January 1708 - Rome, 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter. Son of the goldsmith Paolino Batoni and Chiara Sesti from Lucca, Pompeo moved to Rome in 1727. He first went through a period of training at the workshop of Francesco Ferdinandi, mostly spent copying the works of Raffaello and Annibale Carracci. Only in the early thirties did he begin to obtain prestige commissions. The first patron was Forte Gabrielli, count of Baccaresca, who commissioned him the famous Enthroned Madonna with Saints and Blesseds of the Gabrielli family of Gubbio for the church of San Gregorio al Celio in Rome (1732 - 1733), a second version of which is today in Venice, at the Gallerie dell'Accademia. Other assignments followed, including an altarpiece for the church of Saints Celso and Giuliano and the prestigious Fall of Simon Mago for the Basilica of San Pietro in Vaticano (today in Santa Maria degli Angeli). The Ecstasy of Saint Catherine of Siena from the National Museum of Villa Guinigi in Lucca dates back to 1743. It was in these years that the artist specialized in portraits, a highly profitable genre given the high number of foreign noblemen passing through Rome for the Grand Tour. Batoni thus gained international fame as the best Italian painter, thanks above all to the clients who came from England and Ireland. In these works and in the numerous allegorical and mythological paintings produced by him, Batoni shows himself to be a composed artist already tending towards neoclassicism. Remembered by contemporary sources is his rivalry with Anton Raphael Mengs. His effigies include the Austrian emperor Joseph II, Pope Pius VI and cardinals Nicola and Leonardo Antonelli. From 1759 onwards, Batoni lived in a large house in via Bocca di Leone in Rome. Affected by apoplexy, he died on February 4, 1787 and was buried in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina, where Nicolas Poussin is also buried. He had two wives. In 1730 he married Caterina, the daughter of the custodian of the Farnesina, in Rome, with whom he had five children and who died in 1742. Five years later he married again with Lucia Fattori, from whom he had seven other children. perforated wood and under cm.115 x 92 study with attribution to Pompeo Batoni it is a copy of the famous painting by Raffaello Sanzio.

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