Pietro Benvenuti

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Self-portrait with cylinder (1802)

Pietro Benvenuti (born January 8, 1769 in Arezzo , † February 3, 1844 in Florence ) was an Italian portrait and history painter of classicism .

life and work

Benvenuti was a student of two painters in Rome (Cavallini and Lapis) who are still unknown to today's research , before he went to Jacques-Louis David in Paris in 1810 and joined his school. By Elisa Bonaparte , regent of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany , Benvenuti was appointed professor at the Accademia di San Luca in Florence in 1803 , after earning an important reputation for two paintings for the Arezzo Cathedral . He received further awards from the Tuscan court in the course of his life.

Pietro Benvenuti painted numerous portraits for clients from all over Europe, but also religious historical representations and decorative frescoes . In his art he was a fanatical supporter of academic conventionalism and a pioneer of Italian Davidism . In general, the influence of Jacques-Louis Davids shaped the painter all his life. The contemporary and traveling writer Stendhal saw Benvenuti's paintings and condemned them as “cold and dispassionate”. Even with today's art lovers, however, Benvenuti's academic-classical style is still very popular. Numerous works by Benvenuti have been preserved, most of them are in the public galleries of the Tuscan cities, many paintings are in private ownership.

The sculptor Antonio Canova was close friends with Benvenuti. In 1929 Pietro Benvenuti was elected an honorary member ( Honorary NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York .

gallery

Works (selection)

  • Self-portrait with a cylinder , 1802. Oil on canvas, 59 × 45 cm. Palazzo Martelli, Florence.
  • Judith presents the head of Holofernes , 1803. Arezzo Cathedral , Cappella della Madonna del Conforto.
  • The Assassination of Priam , 1811. Oil on canvas, 350 × 610 cm. Palazzo Corsini, Florence.
  • Portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria-Tuscany , 1817. Oil on canvas, 167 × 123.5 cm. Palazzo Reale, Racconigi .
  • Portrait of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany , 1828. Oil on canvas, 129 × 98 cm. Collezione Linari, Florence.
  • The school of Plato Judith , 1804. Oil on canvas, 71 × 54.5 cm. Uguccione Ranieri di Sorbello Foundation, Perugia .
  • Christ and the Samaritan Woman , around 1807. Oil on canvas, 241 × 181 cm. Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista, Montale .
  • The Adoration of the Shepherds , 1818. Oil on canvas, 183 × 240 cm. Palazzo Pitti , Florence

literature

  • Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Leipzig, 1940, XXXIV, p. 567f.
  • Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della Citta di Firenze: Pittore Imperiale. Pietro Benvenuti alla corte di Napoleone e dei Lorena. Florence 2009

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Thieme (ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Leipzig, 1909, III, 358f.
  2. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "B" / Benvenuti, Pietro Honorary 1929 ( Memento of the original from August 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 16, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org

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personal data
SURNAME Benvenuti, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Arezzo
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 1844
Place of death Florence