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The Artist: One of the most influential and important artists active in early eighteenth-century Rome, Benedetto Luti was born and baptized in Florence on November 17, 1666.
Benedetto Luti. Italian, born Florence, Italy 1666-died Rome, Italy 1724. Born. Florence, Italy. Died. Rome, Italy. Nationalities. Italian. Works by this artist (59698 items) Activity/Lab. Museum in My Pocket: An Off-the-Wall Art Game. What if art jumped off the museum walls and into a pocket-sized collection?
- November 17, 1666
- June 17, 1724
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In Western painting: Late Baroque and Rococo. …18th-century style by his pupil Benedetto Luti, while Francesco Trevisani abandoned the dramatic lighting of his early paintings in favour of a glossy Rococo classicism.
Highly theatrical and emotionally expressive, the drawing epitomizes late-Baroque virtuoso design and draftsmanship. Benedetto Luti. Italian, 1666–1724. Allegory of the elevation of Cardinal Deacon Oddone Colonna to the papal chair as Pope Martin V, 1700.
In addition to being a painter, draftsman, and pastelist, Luti was a connoisseur, collector, and dealer. His pastels fall into three groups: portraits, bearded male heads thought to represent apostles, and studies from the model.
Benedetto Luti was a Florentine painter who trained under Anton Domenico Gabbiani before moving to Rome in 1690. He was elected to the Accademia di S. Luca in 1694 and quickly rose to prominence as one of the leading painters of the early eighteenth century. His earliest known work is God Cursing Cain (1692, Derbyshire, Kedleston Hall).
