Pio Panfili (May 5, 1723 – 17 June 1812) was an

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painter and engraver.

Biography

He was born in

Porto San Giorgio Porto San Giorgio is a ''comune'' (town or municipality) in the Province of Fermo, in the Marche region of Italy. It has approximately 15,700 inhabitants (2021) and it is located on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. History Already famous at the ti ...

in the province of Fermo. He trained with Antiveduto Grammatica, Natale Ricci in

Fermo Fermo (ancient: Firmum Picenum) is a town and ''comune'' of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo. Fermo is on a hill, the Sabulo, elevation , on a branch from Porto San Giorgio on the Adriatic coast railway. History The oldest hum ...

, and finally in the

Accademia Clementina The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Acc ...

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

, and was awarded Bolognese citizenship. After painting throughout the region, he moved to Bologna in 1767. He died in 1812 in Bologna. He painted the ceiling of the staircase of the monastery of the Padri Conventuali of Montegiorgio and the refectory of the Augustinians in

Rimini Rimini ( , ; rgn, Rémin; la, Ariminum) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy and capital city of the Province of Rimini. It sprawls along the Adriatic Sea, on the coast between the rivers Marecchia (the ancient ''Arimin ...

. Also painted for palaces, including the Palazzo Priorale, and the ceiling of the cathedral of

. He published ''

Vedute A ''veduta'' ( Italian for "view"; plural ''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 ...

di Bologna'' with 52 engravings by himself and published by Petronio Dalla Volpe.Altoreno Books
edition of Panfili vedute.

References

1723 births 1812 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian neoclassical painters 19th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub