Giovanni Paolo Pannini
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Giovanni Paolo Pannini or Panini (Piacenza, June 17 1691 – Rome, October 21 1765) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known as one of the vedutista or "view painters".
As a young man Pannini trained at Piacenza as a stage designer. He moved to Rome in 1711 where he studied drawing with Benedetto Luti, and became famous as a decorator of palaces, including the Villa Patrizi (1718–1725) and the Palazzo de Carolis (1720) As a painter, Pannini is best known for his vistas of Rome; he took a particular interest in the city's antiquities. Among his most famous works are the interior of the Pantheon, and his vedute — paintings of picture galleries containing views of Rome.
In 1719 Pannini was admitted to the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. He taught in Rome at the Accademia di San Luca and the Académie de France where he influenced Jean-Honoré Fragonard. His style would influence a number of other painters, such as Canaletto and Bernardo Bellotto who sought to appease the need by visitors for painted "postcards" of the sights of Italian environs.
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