Pietro Paoletti (1801 in

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– October 23, 1847 in Belluno) was an Italian painter and engraver.

Biography

He took fresco training with Giovanni De Min. In 1827, he traveled to Rome on the recommendation of Count

Leopoldo Cicognara Count Leopoldo Cicognara (17 November 1767, in Ferrara – 5 March 1834, in Venice) was an Italian artist, art collector, art historian and bibliophile. Early life, education, and political career Cicognara attended the Collegio dei Nobili in M ...

, and there found patronage with Cardinal

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in the court of

Pope Gregory XVI Pope Gregory XVI (; ; born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari; 18 September 1765 – 1 June 1846) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 February 1831 to his death in June 1846. He had adopted the name Mauro upon enteri ...

. In Rome, he worked under the Neoclassic painter Camuccini. His skill as a fresco artist, put him in demand across the peninsula. Among his works are frescoes for the Basilica in the Abbey of

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, the church of

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in Venice, and for many of the Torlonia properties in Rome including Palazzo Torloni in

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and Villa Torlonia in Rome (the latter had stories from Aesop's fables as well a portraits of artists seen below). He also frescoed the apse and the cupola of the Cathedral of

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with stories from the bible. He also painted for or his works are found in Villa de Manzoni near

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, Palazzo Ricci in Rieti, Palazzo Lucernari and del Governatore in Rome, Church of San Isidoro, Rome, Casa dell’Intendente in

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, San Francesco, Naples, Chapel of Pius V and in the Loggia of the Vatican, the famous

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and Palazzo Cittadella-Vigodarzere in

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, Villa Patt in

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, Palazzo Bortolan and Palazzo Spineda in

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, Palazzo Vecchia in

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. He also is known to have made plaster cast cameos or Intaglios. This was a peculiar art form from the early, pre-photographic, 19th century: small reliefs were sculpted to depict either parts or all of major works. The impressions of these reliefs were then pressed on to oval or round plaster medallions. These mementoes were then bound into volumes. They were mementoes of prominent works in Rome. For example, one set by Paoletti had works from the

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, (Rome),

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the 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 ...

, Capodimonte, and Vatican museums; as well as works from Villa Albani and by

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, and

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. Paoletti plaster casts
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vedute A ''veduta'' (; : ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre of landscape originated ...

painter.

Frescoes in Villa Torlonia

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paoletti, Pietro 1801 births 1847 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters People from Belluno 19th-century Italian male artists