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Benedetto Luti BIOGRAPHY
1666 Florence, Italy - 1724 Rome, Italy. Known for: Painting and sculpture.
Benedetto Luti was employed by many of the leading Roman families of the day, including the Torri, Colonna, Pallavicini, Barberini, and Odescalchi, whilst also receiving the patronage of church... Read full biography
Benedetto Luti was employed by many of the leading Roman families of the day, including the Torri, Colonna, Pallavicini, Barberini, and Odescalchi, whilst also receiving the patronage of church leaders such as Pope Clement XI, Cardinal Ottoboni, Cardinal Augusto Fabbroni and Padre Cloche. The... Read full biography
Benedetto Luti was employed by many of the leading Roman families of the day, including the Torri, Colonna, Pallavicini, Barberini, and Odescalchi, whilst also receiving the patronage of church leaders such as Pope Clement XI, Cardinal Ottoboni, Cardinal Augusto Fabbroni and Padre Cloche. The artist was among the painters selected to decorate the nave arcade of San Giovanni in Laterano, the most important papal commission in the first quarter of the century, for which Luti, in 1718, contributed... Read full biography
Benedetto Luti was employed by many of the leading Roman families of the day, including the Torri, Colonna, Pallavicini, Barberini, and Odescalchi, whilst also receiving the patronage of church leaders such as Pope Clement XI, Cardinal Ottoboni, Cardinal Augusto Fabbroni and Padre Cloche. The artist was among the painters selected to decorate the nave arcade of San Giovanni in Laterano, the most important papal commission in the first quarter of the century, for which Luti, in 1718, contributed the figure of Isaiah to the series of oval prophets. Although he never left Rome after his arrival in 1690, several of Luti's most celebrated works were executed for foreign nobility, notably Palatine Elector Johann Wilhelm (1658-1716) and Lothar... Read full biography
Benedetto Luti was employed by many of the leading Roman families of the day, including the Torri, Colonna, Pallavicini, Barberini, and Odescalchi, whilst also receiving the patronage of church leaders such as Pope Clement XI, Cardinal Ottoboni, Cardinal Augusto Fabbroni and Padre Cloche. The artist was among the painters selected to decorate the nave arcade of San Giovanni in Laterano, the most important papal commission in the first quarter of the century, for which Luti, in 1718, contributed the figure of Isaiah to the series of oval prophets. Although he never left Rome after his arrival in 1690, several of Luti's most celebrated works were executed for foreign nobility, notably Palatine Elector Johann Wilhelm (1658-1716) and Lothar Franz von Schönborn (1655-1729). Following his commission from the latter to paint two w... Read full biography
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Benedetto Luti was employed by many of the leading Roman families of the day, including the Torri, Colonna, Pallavicini, Barberini, and Odescalchi, whilst also receiving the patronage of church leaders such as Pope Clement XI, Cardinal Ottoboni, Cardinal Augusto Fabbroni and Padre Cloche.
The artist was among the painters selected to decorate the nave arcade of San Giovanni in Laterano, the most important papal commission in the first quarter of the century, for which Luti, in 1718, contributed the figure of Isaiah to the series of oval prophets.
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