Benedetto Luti

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Benedetto Luti (born November 17, 1666 in Florence , † June 17, 1724 in Rome ) was an Italian painter .

Life

Luti moved from Florence to Rome in 1691, where he was received by the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III. de 'Medici , an enthusiastic admirer of pastel portraits. Luti was one of the first to use pastel painting not only for preliminary studies of paintings or frescoes, but also to create portraits in them. He also painted oil paintings and frescoes, for example in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Lateran . Luti was also a successful art dealer and had a famous painting and drawing school, where he painters and architects such as Giovanni Domenico Piastrini (1678-1740), Giovanni Paolo Panini , Jean-Baptiste van Loo and his brother Charles-André van Loo to his students counted.

photos

  • Boy with a flute, Hermitage, around 1720

  • Self-portrait, after 1690, before 1696

  • Allegory of Wisdom

  • Rebecca at the fountain, around 1700

literature

  • Alessandro Serafini:  Luti, Benedetto. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 66:  Lorenzetto – Macchetti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2006.
  • Edgar Peters Brown, Joseph Rishel (editor) Art in Rome in the 18. Century , exhibition catalog, London, 2000

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SURNAME Luti, Benedetto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1666
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1724
Place of death Rome