Giovanni Paolo Pannini o Panini (Piacenza 1691 - Roma 1765) bottega/allievo di

Giovanni Paolo Pannini or Panini (Piacenza 1691 - Rome 1765) workshop/pupil of Capriccio with the Temples of Hadrian and Fortuna Virile Oil on canvas 69 x 112 cm We report what Ferdinando Arisi writes in the caption dedicated to the original work (p. 409, card 357 from the volume Gian Paolo Panini e i splendi della Roma del '700): In a private Roman collection is preserved a version signed and dated 1735 that must be considered the prototype. It is a painting, which alive Panini, must have been fundamental, if it was replicated at least twice, with slight variations and copied by pupils several times without major variations. He initially studied theatrical scenography in his hometown, moving on to Rome, in 1711, to the workshop of Benedetto Luti. Fascinated by the remains of ancient Rome, he took other protagonists of the Roman stage as models, forming his own artistic production, where the ruins witnessed scenes from sacred texts or ancient literature. His architectural backdrops, as much as his views, are not allusions to time and the transience of man but places of crystalline beauty that exalt the grandeur of ancient time and the beauty of the eternal city. He had the intelligence to use his extraordinary technique in themes congenial to him after observing and pondering what other interpreters of Roman painting culture related to him had painted, such as Alberto Carlieri, Stefano Orlandi, Gaspare Vanvitelli, Jan Frans van Bloemen and Andrea Locatelli and especially Giovanni Ghisolfi. He was very successful both publicly and academically; in 1718 he was admitted to the Congregation of the Virtuosi at the Pantheon, and taught at both the Academy of St. Luke and the Académie de France. Numerous artists were trained in his workshop, including Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, Antonio Ioli, Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Claude-Joseph Vernet, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and, above all, Hubert Robert, who was his best pupil. Giovanni Paolo Pannini or Panini (Piacenza 1691 - Rome 1765) workshop/pupil of Capriccio With the Temples of Hadrian and Virile Fortune Oil on canvas 69 x 112 cm We report what Ferdinando Arisi writes in the caption dedicated to the original artwork (page 409, form 357 of the book Gian Paolo Panini e i pompi della Roma del '700): In a private Roman collection a version signed and dated 1735 is preserved must be considered the prototype. It is a painting, which Panini lived, must have been fundamental if it was replicated at least twice, with slight variations and copied by students several times without significant variations.