Giovanni Antonio Buti

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Giovanni Antonio Buti , also Gianantonio Buti, was an Italian architectural painter who probably worked mainly in Rome between 1750 and 1754 .

Palace with porticos around a courtyard. 1750
Ruin of a palace .

life and work

Nothing is known about the origins, training and life of Giovanni Antonio Buti. Apparently he was mainly active as a painter of fantastic architectural pieces and was probably influenced in his conception of art by Giovanni Ghisolfi , Giovanni Paolo Pannini and Giovanni Battista Piranesi . Like Pannini and Piranesi, he was probably mainly active in Rome.

Only a few pictures of his hand can currently be proven, only one of which is the representation of a palace with a portico around a courtyard (oil on canvas, 135 × 99.5 cm) signed and dated 1750 - Buti P .: MDCCL . The picture is now, together with its presumed counterpart, the depiction of the ruins of a palace (oil on canvas, 136 × 99.5 cm) in the possession of the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden (Inv.-No .: 461 and 462). In 2004, at the Sotheby's auction on September 7, 2004 in Amsterdam, two more pictures from the Greinburg Castle collection were found, which were also attributed to Giovanni Antonio Buti on a label on the back, which can be seen in a comparison with the two Dresden works proved correct. It is an architecture capriccio with figures at a fountain and an architecture capriccio with figures in a landscape garden (both oil on canvas; 116 × 134 cm; lot 30), whose whereabouts are unknown. No further works are currently known.

Giovanni Antonio Buti used common stylistic devices of the genre in his picture compositions and composed his pictures in this way. Before the signature on the Dresden picture was discovered, his pictures were considered possible works by Giovanni Paolo Pannini or Pietro Paltronieri .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sven-Wieland Staps: Buti, Gianantonio . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 15, Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-22755-8 , p. 367.
  2. ↑ Harald Marx (ed.): Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden. Volume I: The exhibited works. Cologne 2005, p. 70.
  3. ↑ Paltronieri, Pietro . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 186-187 .
personal data
SURNAME Buti, Giovanni Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buti, Gianantonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1750
DATE OF DEATH after 1754