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Pietro Bianchi BIOGRAPHY
1694 Sarzana, Italy - 1740 Rome, Italy. Known for: Baroque painting of religious stories, flower and fruit still life and animals.
An Italian painter, Pietro Bianchi was a painter of the Baroque period and was active in Genoa and Rome. His father, Giovanni Bianchi, had moved from Sarzana to Rome in 1682. His sister was married... Read full biography
An Italian painter, Pietro Bianchi was a painter of the Baroque period and was active in Genoa and Rome. His father, Giovanni Bianchi, had moved from Sarzana to Rome in 1682. His sister was married to an attendant to the household of the Marchese Marcello Sacchetti, who noted the boy Pietro’s... Read full biography
An Italian painter, Pietro Bianchi was a painter of the Baroque period and was active in Genoa and Rome. His father, Giovanni Bianchi, had moved from Sarzana to Rome in 1682. His sister was married to an attendant to the household of the Marchese Marcello Sacchetti, who noted the boy Pietro’s affinity for drawing. As a boy Pietro was placed in the apprenticeship of a painter J. Triga, but then passed on to work in the school of the Genoese Giovanni Battista Gaulli. In 1707, at age 13, he won a... Read full biography
An Italian painter, Pietro Bianchi was a painter of the Baroque period and was active in Genoa and Rome. His father, Giovanni Bianchi, had moved from Sarzana to Rome in 1682. His sister was married to an attendant to the household of the Marchese Marcello Sacchetti, who noted the boy Pietro’s affinity for drawing. As a boy Pietro was placed in the apprenticeship of a painter J. Triga, but then passed on to work in the school of the Genoese Giovanni Battista Gaulli. In 1707, at age 13, he won a drawing competition sponsored by the Accademia di San Luca. In 1709, when Gaulli died, and he entered the studio of Giuseppe Ghezzi then under Benedetto Luti. He painted both religious stories and still life pictures of animals, flowers, and fruits.... Read full biography
An Italian painter, Pietro Bianchi was a painter of the Baroque period and was active in Genoa and Rome. His father, Giovanni Bianchi, had moved from Sarzana to Rome in 1682. His sister was married to an attendant to the household of the Marchese Marcello Sacchetti, who noted the boy Pietro’s affinity for drawing. As a boy Pietro was placed in the apprenticeship of a painter J. Triga, but then passed on to work in the school of the Genoese Giovanni Battista Gaulli. In 1707, at age 13, he won a drawing competition sponsored by the Accademia di San Luca. In 1709, when Gaulli died, and he entered the studio of Giuseppe Ghezzi then under Benedetto Luti. He painted both religious stories and still life pictures of animals, flowers, and fruits. He painted a St. Clara at Gubbio, and a picture of the Conception for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli at Rome, of which a mos... Read full biography
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An Italian painter, Pietro Bianchi was a painter of the Baroque period and was active in Genoa and Rome. His father, Giovanni Bianchi, had moved from Sarzana to Rome in 1682. His sister was married to an attendant to the household of the Marchese Marcello Sacchetti, who noted the boy Pietro’s affinity for drawing.
As a boy Pietro was placed in the apprenticeship of a painter J. Triga, but then passed on to work in the school of the Genoese Giovanni Battista Gaulli. In 1707, at age 13, he won a drawing competition sponsored by the Accademia di San Luca. In 1709, when Gaulli died, and he entered the studio of Giuseppe Ghezzi then under Benedetto Luti.
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