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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures.
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures.
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (born Jan. 25, 1708, Lucca, Tuscany [Italy]—died Feb. 4, 1787, Rome) was an Italian painter, who in his own time was ranked with Anton Raphael Mengs as a painter of historical subjects.
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni. 1708 - 1787. Batoni was the leading portrait painter of 18th- century Rome. He was born in Lucca, the son of a goldsmith, and his training probably took place there before he moved to Rome in 1727.
Italian painter and draughtsman, the son of a distinguished goldsmith. He has been described as ‘Italy's last Old Master’ and he was certainly the last great Italian personality to dominate painting in Rome, where he spent virtually his whole career (he settled there in 1727).
Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous allegorical and mythological pictures.
'Pompeo Batoni was known for his portraits of wealthy Grand Tourists during their stay in Rome. He frequently depicted them in the presence of antiquities in order to...
