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Carlo Bianconi (1732 – August 15, 1802) was an Italian painter, engraver, and architect.

Biography

He trained in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= 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 150 different nat ...

with

Ercole Graziani the Younger Ercole Graziani the Younger (1688–1765) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Piacenza. Biography Ercole was a pupil of the painter Donato Creti and Marcantonio Franceschini. Pope Benedict XIV ordered a copy ...

in Bologna. He created many engravings of antiquities. In Bologna, he worked with

Mauro Tesi Mauro Antonio Tesi (; January 15, 1730 – July 18, 1766), or, as he is sometimes called, after the name given him by his patron and admirer, Francesco Algarotti, "Il Maurino", was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque period, active mainly in ...

in designing a monument to their patron, Count

Francesco Algarotti Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector. He was a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and opera. He wa ...

. He was a member of 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 Accademia f ...

, but moved to Milan in 1778 and became secretary of the

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di ...

for twenty years. he had helped edit Malvasia's guide to Bologna. In 1787, he published a Guide to Arts and Antiquities in Milan.Nuova guida di Milano
by Carlo Bianconi Stamperia Sirtoni, Milan (1787). He died in Milan. His brother

Giovanni Ludovico Bianconi Giovanni Ludovico Bianconi (1717 in Bologna – 1781 in Perugia), was an Italian doctor and antiquarian, a multi-facetted scholar who was mentor and correspondent of the connoisseur and early art historian, Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Bianconi ...

, was a neoclassical doctor, art historian, and antiquarian, who was a close friend of

Winckelmann Winckelmann may refer to: * George Winckelmann (1884–1962), a Finnish lawyer and a diplomat * Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), a German art historian and archaeologist * Johann Just Winckelmann Johann Just Winckelmann (19 August 1620 ...

References

Note

*Myers claims Giovanni Ludovico was Carlo's father. Carlo Bianconi does not appear to be closely related to

Charles Bianconi Charles Bianconi (24 September 1786 – 22 September 1875) was an Italo-Irish entrepreneur. Sometimes described as the "man who put Ireland on wheels", he developed a network of horse-drawn coaches that became Ireland's "first regular public trans ...

. 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Bologna Academic staff of Brera Academy Italian art historians Italian engravers 1732 births 1802 deaths 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-engraver-stub