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Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (25 January 1708 – 4 February 1787) was an Italian painter who displayed a solid technical knowledge in his portrait work and in his numerous
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and mythological pictures. The high number of foreign visitors travelling throughout
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and reaching
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during their " Grand Tour" led the artist to specialize in portraits. Batoni won international fame largely thanks to his customers, mostly British and Irish gentlemen, whom he portrayed, often with famous Italian landscapes in the background. Such Grand Tour portraits by Batoni were in British private collections, thus ensuring the genre's popularity in
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. One generation later, Sir
Joshua Reynolds Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter who specialised in portraits. The art critic John Russell (art critic), John Russell called him one of the major European painters of the 18th century, while Lucy P ...
would take up this tradition and become the leading English portrait painter. Although Batoni was considered the best Italian painter of his time, contemporary chronicles mention his rivalry with
Anton Raphael Mengs Anton Raphael Mengs (12 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter. Early life Mengs was born on 12 March 1728, at Ústí nad Labem in the Kingdom of Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs, a Danish-born painter wh ...
. In addition to art-loving nobility, Batoni's subjects included the kings and queens of Poland, Portugal, and Prussia; the Holy Roman Emperors Joseph II and Leopold II (a fact which earned him noble dignity); the popes Benedict XIV,
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, and
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, Elector Karl Theodor of Bavaria; and many more. He also received numerous commissions for
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s for churches (in Rome,
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,
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and
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, for example) as well as for mythological and allegorical subjects. Batoni's style took inspiration and incorporated elements of classical antiquity, French
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, Bolognese
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, and the work of artists such as
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, Claude Lorrain, and especially
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. As such, Pompeo Batoni is considered a precursor of
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.


Biography


Early life

Pompeo Batoni was born in
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, the son of a
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, Paolino Batoni, and his wife, Chiara Sesti. On 5 February 1708, he was baptized in the Basilica of San Frediano. He moved to
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in 1727, and apprenticed with Agostino Masucci, Sebastiano Conca and/or Francesco Imperiali (1679–1740).


Career

Batoni owed his first independent commission to the rains that struck Rome in April 1732. Seeking shelter from a sudden storm, Forte Gabrielli di Gubbio, count of Baccaresca, took cover under the ''portico'' of the
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on the
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. Here, the nobleman met the young artist who was drawing the ancient bas-reliefs and the paintings of the staircase of the palace. Impressed by his skill and the purity of the design, Gabrielli asked Batoni to see some of his works, and when conducted to the painter's studio he was so awed by his talent that he offered him to paint a new altarpiece for the chapel of his family in San Gregorio Magno al Celio, the ''Madonna on a Throne with Child and four Saints and Blesseds of the Gabrielli family'' (1732–33), a second version of which (1736) is now at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in
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. The Gabrielli ''Madonna'' obtained general admiration and by the early 1740s Batoni started to receive other independent commissions. His celebrated painting, ''The Ecstasy of Saint Catherine of Siena'' (1743) illustrates his academic refinement of the late-
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style. Another masterpiece, his '' Fall of Simon Magus'' was painted initially for the St Peter's Basilica. Batoni became a highly-fashionable painter in Rome, particularly after his rival, the proto-neoclassicist
Anton Raphael Mengs Anton Raphael Mengs (12 March 1728 – 29 June 1779) was a German Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter. Early life Mengs was born on 12 March 1728, at Ústí nad Labem in the Kingdom of Bohemia, the son of Ismael Mengs, a Danish-born painter wh ...
, departed for
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in 1761. Batoni befriended Winckelmann and, like him, aimed in his painting to the restrained classicism of painters from earlier centuries, such as
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and
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, rather than to the work of the Venetian artists then in vogue. Commenting on Batoni, the art historians Boni and de Rossi said of Batoni and Mengs the other prominent painter in Rome during the second half of the 18th century, that ''Mengs was made painter by philosophy: Batoni by nature...(Batoni) was more painter than philosopher, (Mengs) more philosopher than painter.'' In 1741, he was inducted into the Accademia di San Luca. He was greatly in demand for portraits, particularly by the British travelling through Rome, who took pleasure in commissioning standing portraits set in the milieu of antiquities, ruins, and works of art. There are records of over 200 portraits by Batoni of visiting British patrons alone. Such " Grand Tour" portraits by Batoni came to proliferate in the British private collections, thus ensuring the genre's popularity in the
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, where Reynolds would become its leading practitioner. In 1760, the painter
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, while visiting Rome would complain that Italian artists ''"talked of nothing, looked at nothing but the works of Pompeo Batoni"''. In 1769, the double portrait of the emperor Joseph II and his brother Pietro Leopoldo I (then
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, later emperor Leopold II), won an Austrian nobility for Batoni. He also portrayed
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and
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. It is believed he painted the staffage (background figures) for some of the landscape paintings of Hendrik Frans van Lint.Hendrik Frans van Lint, called le Studio (Antwerp 1684 - Rome 1763), ''Landscape with a Watermill and Dancing Figures (The Wedding of Isaac and Rebecca)''
at Gallerie Canesso
According to a rumour, before dying in Rome in 1787, he bequeathed his palette and brushes to
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, to whom, full of admiration for his '' Oath of the Horatii'', Batoni would have confessed: "''Only the two of us can call themselves painters''".


Death

His late years were affected by declining health; he died in Rome in 1787, at the age of 79, and was buried at his parish church of San Lorenzo in Lucina. Batoni's last will executors were
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Filippo Carandini and James Byres, the Scottish
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, but the estate was insolvent, and his widow was forced by the events to petition the
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, whom Batoni had painted in 1769, for financial assistance, offering in exchange her husband's unfinished self-portrait, today at the
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.


Personal life

From 1759, Batoni lived in a large house at 25 Via Bocca di Leone in Rome, which included a studio as well as exhibition rooms and a drawing academy. He was married twice, in 1729 to Caterina Setti (died 1742), and then in 1747 to Lucia Fattori, and he had twelve children; three of his sons assisted in his studio. His daughters Rufina, who died on 27 April 1784 at age 27, and Maria Benedetta were accomplished singers.


Influence

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is said to have frequented his studio. The Italian Angelo Banchero of Sestri Ponente, Benigno Bossi of Arcisate, Paolo Girolamo Brusco of
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, Antonio Cavallucci of Sermoneta, Marco Cavicchia of Arpino, Adamo Chiusole, Antonio Concioli of Pergola, Domenico Conti Bazzani of
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, Domenico Corvi of
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, Felice Giani of San Sebastiano Curone, Gregorio Giusti of Pistoia, Gaspare Landi of
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, Nicola Antonio Monti of
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, Giuseppe Pirovani of
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, Pasquale Ciaramponi of Treia, and Carlo Giuseppe Ratti of
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, were among his students or were influenced by his work. Among the foreigners,
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of
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, Maria Cosway of
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, Ivan Martos of
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, Johann Gottlieb Puhlmann of Zieko, and Johannes Wiedewelt of
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were among Batoni's most notable followers.


Criticism and exhibitions

Batoni was among the most celebrated Italian painters in his day, and his patrons and collectors included royals and aristocrats from all over Europe. His fame and reputation decreased over the 19th century until 20th-century scholars dedicated their critical attention to him and again revived his fame among the general public. Among them the following can be noted: the German Ernst Emmerling, the Englishmen John Steegman and Benedict Nicolson, the Italian Isa Belli Barsali, and the Americans Anthony M. Clark and Edgar Peters Bowron. The first exhibition devoted to Pompeo Batoni was held in his hometown of Lucca in 1967, after which two other were organized in
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and New York in 1982. He was again the subject of a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in
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in London, and the Ducal Palace in Lucca in 2007–08. A portrait of George Oakley Aldrich, a fellow of
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, from the 1750s, identified in the
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in Oxford by art historian Bendor Grosvenor and visual sociology researcher Emma Dabiri, is the subject of an episode of
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's '' Britain's Lost Masterpieces'' first broadcast on 30 October 2019. After a full restoration by Simon Gillespie, the programme concludes with a positive attribution to Batoni made by expert in British 18th-century portraiture Prof. Robin Simon.


List of works


Allegory and History

(In chronological order) * ''The Virgin Mary enthroned with saints of the Gabrielli di Gubbio family'' — (1732–33), San Gregorio al Celio, Rome; and (1736), Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice * ''The five allegories of the Arts'' — (1740) Stadelsches Kunstinstitut,
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* ''Apollo and Two Muses'' - (1741) Museum of King John III's Palace at Wilanów,
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* ''Catherine of Siena in Ecstasy'' — (1743) Museo di villa Guinigi,
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* ''Achilles and Lycomedes'' — (1745)
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, Florence * '' Time orders Old Age to destroy Beauty'' — (1746)
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* '' Fall of Simon Magus'' — (1746–1755) St Peter's Basilica, Rome * ''Aeneas escaping from Troy'' — (1750) Sabauda Gallery,
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* ''Vulcan'' - (1750)
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, Ottawa * ''Cleopatra shows Octavian the bust of Caesar'' - (1755)
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*''Martyrdom of Saint Lucia'' — (1759) Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid * ''The Holy Family'' — (1760) Capitoline Museum, Rome * ''Diana and Cupid'' — (1761)
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, New York * ''Madonna'' — Church of Santa Maria in Monterone, Rome


Portraits

* ''Portrait of Giacinta Orsini'' — (1758) * ''Portrait of a Man in a Blue Suit'' — (1760s
Dallas Museum of Art
* '' Portrait of Richard Milles'' — (1760–1770)
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* '' Portrait of Humphry Morice'' — (1761)
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* ''Portrait of Charles Crowle'' — (1761–1762)
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,
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* '' Portrait of the Duke of York'' — (1764)
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* ''Portrait of Lord Dundas'' — (1764) Aske Hall, Yorkshire, England *''Portrait of Manuel de Rodas'' — (1765) Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando,
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* '' Portrait of Abbondio Rezzonico'' — (1766) Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome * ''Portrait of Sir Gregory Page Turner'' — (1768) Private Collection * ''Portrait of Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany'' — (1768) Private Collection * ''Portrait of Thomas Estcourt, Esquire'' — (1772) John Hay Library,
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* ''Selfportrait'' — (1773–1774) Uffizi, Florence * ''Portrait of Thomas William Coke'' — (1774) Holkham Hall, Norfolk, England * '' Portrait of a Man (John Scott?)'' — (1770)
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* ''Portrait of
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'' — (1775–1776) Sabauda Gallery, Turin * ''Portrait of Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton'' — (1775–1776)
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* ''Portrait of Francis Basset'' — (1778) Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid *'' Portrait of Francis Basset 1st Baron of Dunstanville'' — (1778) Prado Museum, Madrid *''Portrait of George Legge Viscount Lewisham'' — (1778) Prado Museum, Madrid *''Portrait of Pope Pius VI'' — (ca.1780) Royal Castle, Warsaw * ''Portrait of Pierre André de Suffren'' — (c.1785) *''Portrait of the Countess Maria Benedetta di San Martino'' — (1785)
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, Madrid


Gallery


Portraits

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961 ...
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Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...
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File:LBoccherini.jpg, '' Luigi Boccherini'', c. 1764–67,
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File:Pompeo Batoni - Retrato de D. Manuel de Roda - Google Art Project.jpg, '' Manuel de Roda'', , Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando,
Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
File:William Gordon Batoni.jpg, '' General William Gordon'', 1765–66, Fyvie Castle, Fyvie File:Philip Metcalfe by Pompeo Batoni.jpg, '' Philip Metcalfe'', 1766–67, National Portrait Gallery,
London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...
File:Lady Mary Fox, Pompeo Batoni, c. 1767.jpg, '' Lady Mary Fox, later Baroness Holland'', 1767 File:William Cavendish 5th Duke of Devonshire.jpg, '' William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire'', 1768,
Chatsworth House Chatsworth House is a stately home in the Derbyshire Dales, north-east of Bakewell and west of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Chesterfield, England. The seat of the Duke of Devonshire, it has belonged to the House of Cavendish, Cavendish family si ...
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Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south a ...
File:Pompeo Batoni - Sir Gregory Page-Turner - WGA1508.jpg, '' Sir Gregory Page-Turner, 3rd Baronet'', ,
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File:SirWilliamFitzherbert1748.jpg, '' Sir William FitzHerbert, 1st Baronet'', ,
Tissington Hall Tissington Hall is an early 17th-century Jacobean architecture, Jacobean mansion house in Tissington, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II* listed building. The Fitzherbert baronets, FitzHerberts, descended from th ...
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File:Pompeo Batoni 002.jpg, '' Emperor Joseph II and Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany'', 1769,
Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien ( "Vienna Museum of art history, Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, i ...
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Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...
File:Portrait of George James, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley by Batoni, Pompeo Girolamo.jpg, '' George, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley'', 1772, Houghton Hall,
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File:Batoni Thomas Estcourt Brown Library.jpg, '' Thomas Estcourt, Esquire'', 1772,
Brown University Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
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File:Portrait de John Scott Pompeo Batoni.png, ''Portrait of a Man'', 1774,
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File:Thomas Kerrich (1748-1828), by Pompeo Batoni.jpg, ''Reverend Thomas Kerrich'', File:Pompeo Batoni - Ritratto di Papa Pio VI (National Gallery of Ireland).jpg, ''
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File:Pompeo Girolamo Batoni - Don José Moñino y Redondo, Conde de Floridablanca - 1974.386 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg, '' José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca'', 1776,
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File:Batoni - Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville.jpg, '' Portrait of Francis Basset'' on the Grand Tour in Rome, 1778, Prado Museum File:5th earl shaftesbury.jpg, '' Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 5th Earl of Shaftesbury'', 1782, St Giles House, Wimborne St Giles,
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File:Pompeo Batoni - Ritratto della contessa Maria Benedetta di San Martino.jpg, ''Countess Maria Benedetta di San Martino'', 1785,
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum The Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum (, ; named after its founder, Baron Heinrich Thyssen, Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza), or simply the Thyssen, is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Museo del Prado, Prado Museum on one of the city ...
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'', 18th century, Naples Conservatory of Music File:Portrait of Stephen Beckingham (1730 or 1731-1813) (by Pompeo Batoni).jpg, ''Portrait of Stephen Beckingham'', 1752


Other subjects

Image:Batoni_Gabrielli_Madonna_Rome.jpg, ''Madonna enthroned with Child and Saints of the Gabrielli di Gubbio family'', 1732, San Gregorio Magno al Celio,
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Image:Accademia - Madonna in trono e santi di Pompeo Batoni.jpg, ''Madonna enthroned with Child and Saints of the Gabrielli di Gubbio family'', 1736, Gallerie dell'Accademia,
Venice Venice ( ; ; , formerly ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are li ...
Image:Basilissa Julian.jpg, ''
Christ Jesus ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the Jesus in Christianity, central figure of Christianity, the M ...
with Saints Julian and Basilissa, Celsus and Marcionilla'', 1736–8, J. Paul Getty Museum,
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File:1740 Batoni Allegorie der Künste anagoria.JPG, Allegory of the Arts, 1740, Städelsches Kunstinstitut,
Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...
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'', 1767,
Church of the Gesù The Church of the Gesù (, ), officially named (), is a church located at Piazza del Gesù in the Pigna (rione of Rome), Pigna ''Rioni of Rome, rione'' of Rome, Italy. It is the mother church of the Society of Jesus (best known as Jesuits). Wi ...
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Rome Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2, ...
File:Batoni, Pompeo ~ Achilles at the Court of Lycomedes, 1745, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.jpg, ''Achilles at the Court of Lycomedes'', 1745, oil on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi,
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File:Samson and Delilah Pompeo Girolamo Batoni.JPG, '' Samson and Delilah'', 1766,
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Detroit Detroit ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Michigan, most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario. It had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 United State ...
File:Hermitagebatoniholyfamily.jpg, ''The Holy Family with St Elizabeth and the Infant St John the Baptist'', 1777,
Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the large ...
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St Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
File:Pompeobatoni-sagradafam.jpg, ''The Sacred Family'', ca. 1763,
Capitoline Museums The Capitoline Museums () are a group of art and archaeology, archaeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The historic seats of the museums are Palazzo dei Conservatori and Palazzo Nuovo, facing ...
, Rome File:Batoni Apollo and two Muses.png, ''Apollo and two Muses'', 1741, King John III Palace Museum, Wilanów,
Warsaw Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at ...
File:The infant Hercules strangling serpents in his cradle - Pompeo Batoni (1743).jpg, The infant Hercules strangling serpents in his cradle, 1743,
Palazzo Pitti The Palazzo Pitti (), in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present ...
, Florence File:1756 Batoni Marriage of Cupid and Psyche anagoria.JPG, ''Marriage of Cupid and Psyche'', 1756, Berlin State Museums File:Martirio de Santa Lucía Pompeo Girolamo Batoni.jpg, ''Martyrdom of Saint Lucía'', 1759, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando,
Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
File:Batoni Diana and Cupid.jpg, '' Diana and Cupid'', 1761,
Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ...
, New York File:Pompeo Batoni - Continenza di Scipione (c.1771).jpg, '' The Continence of Scipio'', 1771,
Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the large ...
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Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
Pompeo Batoni 003.jpg, The Return of the Prodigal Son, 1773, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien


Footnotes


References and further reading

* E. Peters Bowron and P. Kerber, ''Pompeo Batoni, Prince of Painters in Eighteenth-Century Rome'' (2008) * *


See also

* Sebastiano Conca * Agostino Masucci * Francesco Ferdinandi * Jacopo Zoboli * Angelo Maria Querini


External links

* *
Pompeo Batoni in "A World History of Art"
at all-art.org (not secure)

at the Wilanów Palace Museum
UK National Portrait Gallery
Images of Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford,
Augustus Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (28 September 173514 March 1811), styled Earl of Euston between 1747 and 1757, was a British Whig statesman of the Georgian era. He is one of a handful of dukes who have served as Prime Minister of t ...
, and Philip Metcalfe.
''Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution''
a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Batoni (see index) * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Batoni, Pompeo 1708 births 1787 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Lucca Italian neoclassical painters 18th-century Italian male artists