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Pier Leone Ghezzi BIOGRAPHY
1674 Rome, Italy - 1755 Rome, Italy. Known for: First 'professional' caricaturist, landscape and religious painting, frescoes, engraving.
During the first half of the eighteenth century there was no more remarkable or engaging artistic personality in Rome than Pier Leone Ghezzi. His accomplishments as a painter and his manifold... Read full biography
During the first half of the eighteenth century there was no more remarkable or engaging artistic personality in Rome than Pier Leone Ghezzi. His accomplishments as a painter and his manifold activities in the artistic society of Rome have today been overshadowed by his fame as the first... Read full biography
During the first half of the eighteenth century there was no more remarkable or engaging artistic personality in Rome than Pier Leone Ghezzi. His accomplishments as a painter and his manifold activities in the artistic society of Rome have today been overshadowed by his fame as the first "professional" caricaturist.' This apt description of Pier Leone Ghezzi sums up one of the most fascinating characters of 18th century Rome. A pupil of his father, Giuseppe Ghezzi, at the Accademia di San Luca... Read full biography
During the first half of the eighteenth century there was no more remarkable or engaging artistic personality in Rome than Pier Leone Ghezzi. His accomplishments as a painter and his manifold activities in the artistic society of Rome have today been overshadowed by his fame as the first "professional" caricaturist.' This apt description of Pier Leone Ghezzi sums up one of the most fascinating characters of 18th century Rome. A pupil of his father, Giuseppe Ghezzi, at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, Ghezzi was from an early age encouraged to develop his skills as a draughtsman. His earliest known painting, a Landscape with Saint Francis, is dated 1698. In 1705 Ghezzi was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca, and four years later was... Read full biography
During the first half of the eighteenth century there was no more remarkable or engaging artistic personality in Rome than Pier Leone Ghezzi. His accomplishments as a painter and his manifold activities in the artistic society of Rome have today been overshadowed by his fame as the first "professional" caricaturist.' This apt description of Pier Leone Ghezzi sums up one of the most fascinating characters of 18th century Rome. A pupil of his father, Giuseppe Ghezzi, at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, Ghezzi was from an early age encouraged to develop his skills as a draughtsman. His earliest known painting, a Landscape with Saint Francis, is dated 1698. In 1705 Ghezzi was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca, and four years later was appointed a Painter of the Apostolic Chamber, eventually succeeding Giuseppe Passeri on the latter's death in 1714. Ghezzi was also named... Read full biography
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During the first half of the eighteenth century there was no more remarkable or engaging artistic personality in Rome than Pier Leone Ghezzi. His accomplishments as a painter and his manifold activities in the artistic society of Rome have today been overshadowed by his fame as the first "professional" caricaturist.' This apt description of Pier Leone Ghezzi sums up one of the most fascinating characters of 18th century Rome.
A pupil of his father, Giuseppe Ghezzi, at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, Ghezzi was from an early age encouraged to develop his skills as a draughtsman. His earliest known painting, a Landscape with Saint Francis, is dated 1698. In 1705 Ghezzi was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca, and four years later...But wait, there's more...
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