Pietro Bianchi (painter)
Pietro Bianchi (* 1694 in Rome , † September 2, 1740 in Rome) was an Italian painter who worked in Genoa and Rome.
biography
The father, Giovanni Bianchi, moved from Sarzana to Rome in 1682 . His sister married a manager of the residence of Marchese Marcello Sacchetti, who noticed Bianchi's fondness for drawing. As a young man he was sent to an apprenticeship with the painter J. Triga, but soon moved to the school of the Genoese artist Giovanni Battista Gaulli . In 1707, at the age of 13, he won a painting competition organized by the Accademia di San Luca . When Giovanni Battista Gaulli died in 1709, he went to the studio of Giuseppe Ghezzi and later that of Benedetto Luti . Bianchi painted both religious subjects and real life scenes, such as pictures of animals, flowers, and fruits.
He painted a Saint Clare in Gubbio and a design for the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome, of which there is a mosaic copy in the chapel of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican .
He died at the age of 46. Giovanni Frossi was one of his students.
literature
- Michael Bryan: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical . Ed .: Robert Edmund Graves. I: (AK). London, S. 125 (English, archive.org ).
- Raffaello Soprani: Delle vite de 'pittori, scultori, ed architetti genovesi . Ed .: Carlo Giuseppe Ratti. tape 2 . Stamperia Casamara in Genoa, 1769, p. 292 (Italian, google.at ).
- William Crelly: Bianchi, Pietro. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 10: Biagio-Boccaccio. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1968.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bianchi, Pietro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Il Creatura |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1694 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 1740 |
| Place of death | Rome |