. Francesco Battaglioli (Modena, 1725 – Venice, 1796) was an Italian

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, known as painter of '' veduta'' and '' capriccios'' based on the scenery of

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and the Venetian mainland (

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and

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Biography

Battaglioli was born in

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. He is said to have been a pupil of Raffaello Rinaldi. He joined the ''Fraglia'' or

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in Venice between 1747-51. He became a member of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 1772, and he succeeded

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as professor of perspective in 1778. Some of his ''veduta'' are of

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in Spain, where he went to paint scenery sets for the Reales Coliseos theater held in the

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for the delight of

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. It is believed they were a set of at least four, of which two are exhibited at the

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in Madrid. Here he also worked with

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in painting stage sets for

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's operas. From that series four of them are preserved at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (''La Nitteti'', ''Didone Abbandonata'', ''Armida Placata Second Act, scene VII,'' and ''Knight fighting dragons in a forest''), another at the Prado (''Armida Placata First Act, scene IV''). Battaglioli's ''veduta'' were engraved by

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and used to illustrate

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's ''Memorie intorno alle pubbliche fabbriche'' (1778).

References

* Torrione, Margarita, ''Francesco Battaglioli. Escenografías para el Real Teatro del Buen Retiro'' (exhibition catalogue), Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Teatro de la Zarzuela, INAEM, 2013. * Torrione, Margarita, ''Nueve óleos de Francesco Battaglioli para el Coliseo del Buen Retiro. (La ópera en el reinado de Fernando VI: último relumbrón de la Corte Barroca.)'', in J. Martínez Millán, C. Camarero Bullón, M. Luzzi Traficante (coords.), ''La corte de los Borbones: crisis del modelo cortesano'', Madrid, Ed. Polifemo, 2013, vol. 3, pp. 1733–1777. * TORRIONE, Margarita, "La sociedad de Corte y el ritual de la ópera", in ''Fernando VI y Bárbara de Braganza. Un reinado bajo el signo de la paz : 1746-1759'', exhibition catalogue, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF), Madrid, 2002, pp. 165–195. . * TORRIONE, Margarita, "Decorados teatrales para el Coliseo del Buen Retiro. Cuatro óleos de Francesco Battaglioli", ''Reales Sitios'' (Revista del Patrimonio Nacional), n° 143, 2000, pp. 40–51. * TORRIONE, Margarita, «El Real Coliseo del Buen Retiro: memoria de una arquitectura desaparecida», in TORRIONE, Margarita (dir.), ''España festejante. El Siglo XVIII'', Málaga, CEDMA, 2000, pp. 295–322. . * TORRIONE, Margarita, ''Crónica festiva de dos reinados en la Gaceta de Madrid : 1700-1759'', Paris, Ophrys, 1998. . * J.G. Links. ''Canaletto and his Patrons'', Paul Elek Ltd, London (1977). pp. 99–100.
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