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Giovanni Paolo Panini

Giovanni Paolo Panini A capriccio of classical ruins with Diogenes throwing away his cup oil painting on canvas
A capriccio of classical ruins with Diogenes throwing away his cup
Painting ID::  87511
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Giovanni Paolo Panini A capriccio of classical ruins with Diogenes throwing away his cup oil painting on canvas



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  Giovanni Paolo Panini
  17 June 1691 - 21 October 1765) was an Italian painter and architect, mainly known as one of the vedutisti . As a young man, Panini trained in his native town of Piacenza, under Giuseppe Natali and Andrea Galluzzi, and later the stage designer Francesco Galli-Bibiena. In 1711, he moved to Rome, where he studied drawing with Benedetto Luti and became famous as a decorator of palaces, including the Villa Patrizi (1719-1725), the Palazzo de Carolis (1720), and the Seminario Romano (1721-1722). In 1719, Panini was admitted to the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. He taught in Rome at the Accademia di San Luca and the Academie de France, where he influenced Jean-Honore Fragonard. In 1754, he served as the principal of the Accademia di San Luca. Panini died in Rome on 21 October 1765 As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of Rome, in which he took a particular interest in the city's antiquities. Among his most famous works are the interior of the Pantheon, and his vedute paintings of picture galleries containing views of Rome. Most of his works, specially those of ruins have a substantial fanciful and unreal embellishment characteristic of capriccio themes.
  A capriccio of classical ruins with Diogenes throwing away his cup
  Oil on canvas. 72.4 x 97.2 cm. Date late 1720s cyf

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