Alessandro Longhi (12 June 1733 – November 1813) was a
Venetian portrait
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this r ...
painter and
printmaker in
etching
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(mostly reproductions of paintings). He is known best for his oil portraits of Venetian nobles of state. His father was the famed
genre
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painter
Pietro Longhi
Pietro Longhi (1702 or November 5, 1701 – May 8, 1785) was a Venetian painter of contemporary genre scenes of life.
Biography
Pietro Longhi was born in Venice in the parish of Saint Maria, first child of the silversmith Alessandro Falca and ...
. He trained under his father and
Giuseppe Nogari (1699–1763). Like
Sebastiano Bombelli
Sebastiano Bombelli (October 1635; 4 May 1719) was an Italian painter, mainly active in Venice, during the Baroque period.
Biography
He was born in Udine on 14 or 15 October 1635 (baptized on the 15th), educated and trained under the guidance ...
in the prior century, Alessandro Longhi is noted for his zealous full-length depictions of robes and emblems of office. His "tumultuous and unusual (etching) technique shows first-hand knowledge of
Rembrandt's etchings", according to Olimpia Theodoli.
[Jane Martineau and Andrew Robison (eds), ''The Glory of Venice, Art in the Eighteenth Century''
(exhib Cat RA London/NGA Washington) Yale UP, 1994 ]
Works
*''Luigi and Alvise III Pisani and family''
*''Portrait of
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*''Portrait of a Composer'', erroneously to be the ''Portrait of Domenico Cimarosa''
*''Portrait of a Lady'' ()
*''Portrait of a Gentleman'' ()
*''Portrait of a Gentleman'' ()
* ''Portrait of Bartholomeo Ferracino''
Ca' Rezzonico
Ca' Rezzonico () is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro ''sestiere'' of Venice, Italy. It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and disp ...
Venice
*''Couple 1 of 2''
*''Couple 2 of 2''
*''Portrait of
Giambattista Piazzetta''
*''Portrait of Giuseppe Chiribiri (Cherubini)'' ()
*''Portrait of
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* Giulio Alberoni (1664–1752), Italian cardinal and statesman
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*''Portrait of
Giacomo Casanova
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*''Portrait of Antonio Renier'' ()
*''Portrait of a Magistrate''
*''Painting and Merit''
*''The Visitation of the Virgin'' in
Sant'Antonio Taumaturgo, Trieste
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Gallery
Alessandro Longhi - Portrait of Gentleman - WGA13393.jpg,
Accademia - Painting and Merit by Alessandro Longhi.jpg,
Carlo Lodoli by Alessandro Longhi.jpg,
Ca' Rezzonico - Ritratto di Bartolomeo Ferracina (1777) - Alessandro Longhi.jpg,
Alessandro Longhi - Portrait of a Lady - WGA13395.jpg, Portrait of Lady
Alessandro Lonhi Ehepaar Damenbild.JPG,
Alessandro Lonhi Ehepaar Herrenbild.JPG,
Calonghi.jpg,
Alessandro Longhi - Ritratto di Carlo Goldoni (c 1757) Ca Goldoni Venezia.jpg,
References
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External links
''Italian Paintings, Venetian School'' a collection catalog containing information about Longhi and his works (see index; plate 44).
1733 births
1813 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
19th-century Italian painters
Italian engravers
Italian portrait painters
Painters from Venice
19th-century Italian male artists
18th-century Italian male artists
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