Paolo Anesi

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Paolo Anesi (born July 9, 1697 in Rome , † 1773 ibid) was an Italian landscape painter of the Baroque and Rococo .

Ponte Sisto in Rome by Anesi

Life

Anesi was the son of a silk weaver from Venice and a student of Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari (1654–1727), Bernardino Fergioni (around 1674–1738) and Sebastiano Conca . In 1723 he married the daughter of the architect Giuseppe Santi . He worked mainly in Florence and Rome and was very successful in his time. His pictures of ruins and vedute are based on Giovanni Paolo Pannini and Andrea Locatelli . In 1761 he was involved in the fresco painting of the Villa Albani near Rome. In 1757 he became a member of the Accademia dei Virtuosi al Pantheon .

Francesco Zuccarelli is one of his students .

In addition to painting , he was also known for drawings and etchings (Varie vedute inventate et intagliate, Rome 1725, dedicated to Cardinal Imperiali).

literature

  • Andrea Busiri Vici: Roma, trio paesistico romano del Settecento. Paolo Anesi, Paolo Monaldi, Alessio De Marchis. Rome 1976.
  • Luigi Salerno: Pittori di paesaggio del Seicento a Roma, part 3. U. Bozzi, Rome 1980.
  • Rezio Buscaroli: La pittura di paesaggio in Italia. Mareggiani, Bologna 1935.
  • Olivier Michel: Vivre et peindre à Rome au XVIIIe siècle ( Collection de l'École Française de Rome. Volume 217). Editore EFR, Rome, 1996, ISBN 2-7283-0354-1 .
  • Carla Benocci: Francesco Nicoletti e Paolo Anesi a Villa Doria Pamphilj (1748–1758). In: Elisa Debenedetti (Ed.) Carlo Marchionni. Architettura, decorazione e scenografia contemporanea ( Studi sul Settecento romano. Volume 4). Multigrafica Ed., Rome 1988, ISBN 88-7597-031-9 , pp. 209-278.
  • Anesi, Paolo . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 490–491 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Anesi, Paolo . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 3, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-363-00116-9 , p. 721 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Florence is sometimes also given.
personal data
SURNAME Anesi, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1697
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH 1773
Place of death Rome