Antonio Giovanni Battisto Peresinotti (Russian:Антонио Перезинотти; 1708,

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- 28 October 1778,

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) was an Italian-born Russian painter and academician who taught decorative art and perspective at the

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He was apprenticed to the decorative painter, Girolamo Bon (c. 1700–1766). Bon and his new wife Rosa (a

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singer) went to Saint Petersburg in 1735, where he had been offered work as a

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. In 1742, Bon invited two of his former students, Peresinotti and Giuseppe Valeriani to join him there. Peresinotti eventually advanced from being a theater painter to working for the Imperial court. He worked on several major projects; including murals at

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, several murals and designs for a new theater at the

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(1749-1765), and murals for the

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(1753-1755), and the (1765-1769). While there, he also took several students. The engraver, worked with him from 1748 to 1754. The landscape painter, , was his apprentice from 1756.Pyotr Stolpyansky, ''

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'' In 1766, he was appointed to the Imperial Academy and began teaching classes there.Aleksey Novitsky, ''Russian Biographical Dictionary'' He received the title of "Academician" in 1767 and became a member of the Council of Professors. He was especially fond of depicting ruins, and often assigned his students to paint them. His most famous student there was

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. Most of his work has not been preserved. Only two stand-alone paintings are known, both landscapes with ruins, on display at the academy's museum. Wall paintings at the

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are also notable.

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