Antonio Francesco Lodovico Joli (13 March 1700 – 29 April 1777) was an Italian painter of
''vedute'' and
''capricci''.
Biography
Born in
Modena
Modena (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language#Dialects, Modenese, Mòdna ; ett, Mutna; la, Mutina) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern I ...
, he first was apprenticed to Rafaello Rinaldi. He then studied in Rome under
Giovanni Paolo Panini
Giovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765) was an Italian painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the ''vedutisti'' ("view painters"). As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of ...
, and in the studios of the
Galli da Bibbiena family of scene-painters. He became a painter of stage sets in Modena and
Perugia
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The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...
. In 1732 he moved to
Venice
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, where he worked as stage-painter for opera productions at the
Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo and the
Teatro San Samuele of the
Grimani
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Notable m ...
family. In 1742 he went to
Dresden
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, and then to London (1744–48) and
Madrid
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(1750–54).
[ In London, he decorated the Richmond mansion of ]John James Heidegger
John James (Johann Jacob) Heidegger (19 June 1666 – 5 September 1749) was a Swiss count and leading impresario of masquerades in the early part of the 18th century.
The son of Zürich clergyman Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Johann Jacob Heidegger ...
, then the director of the King's Theatre in the Haymarket Haymarket may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Haymarket, New South Wales, area of Sydney, Australia
Germany
* Heumarkt (KVB), transport interchange in Cologne on the site of the Heumarkt (literally: hay market)
Russia
* Sennaya Square (''Hay Squ ...
.[ In 1749 Joli left London and went to Madrid where he was also involved in scene painting for the royal court, both at the Coliseo at Buen Retiro, the royal palace then just outside Madrid, and at the smaller opera house at the palace at Aranjuez. The opera performances for which he painted scenery were directed by Farinelli. He also made large-sized paintings of the Esquadra del Tajo, the fleet of royal barges and other vessels on the river Tajo at Aranjuez. Joli returned to Venice in 1754, where he became one of the 36 founding members of the ]Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
The is a public tertiary academy of art in Venice, Italy.
History
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia was founded on 24 September 1750; the statute dates from 1756. The first director was Giovanni Battista Piazzetta; Gianbattista Tiepol ...
. He moved to the Bourbon Bourbon may refer to:
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court of Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
in 1761,[ and died there on 29 April 1777.
]
References
Further reading
*
Grove encyclopedia biography on Artnet
Gallery
External links
Antonio Joli at Wikigallery.org
''Italian Paintings, Venetian School''
a collection catalog containing information about Joli and his works (see index; plate 39).
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1700 births
1777 deaths
Painters from Modena
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian vedutisti
18th-century Italian male artists