Gaetano Vetturali (1701–1783) was an Italian painter.

Biography

He specialized in imaginary landscapes (''capricci'') also called ''paesaggios'' or

veduta A ''veduta'' ( Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre ...

(landscapes) with architecture and figures. Gaetano was born in

Lucca Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as one o ...

. His initial training was 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 ...

. He studied first under

Giovanni Domenico Brugieri Giovanni Domenico Brugieri (1678–1744) was an Italian Painting, painter of the late-Baroque period in Lucca. Lanzi is cited as referring to him as either ''Giovanni Domenico'' or in other places as ''Giovanni Batista'' or ''Battista'',. Biograp ...

and

Giovanni Domenico Lombardi Giovanni Domenico Lombardi (1682–1751) was an Italian painter of the late- Baroque period in Lucca. His work shows the influence of rising neoclassicism but enveloped by an attention to Caravaggist quotations. He was a pupil of Giovanni Marra ...

, the former pupil of

Maratta Carlo Maratta or Maratti (13 May 162515 December 1713) was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition ...

and the latter of

Marracci Marracci may refer to: *Ludovico Marracci Ludovico Marracci (6 October 1612 – 5 February 1700), also known by Luigi Marracci, was an Italian Oriental scholar and professor of Arabic in the College of Wisdom at Rome. He is chiefly known as the ...

. Subsequently he moved on to study

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

with Ferdinando Galli Bibiena in Bologna, and figure painting with

Vittorio Bigari Vittorio Bigari (1692 – 1776) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Biography He was born in Bologna in 1692. His main biographer was Zanotti. He was initially trained in the art of stucco and sculpture, a pupil of Antonio D ...

. He was strongly influenced by Canaletto.Mazzarosa, page 172. In 1759, he decorated the apartment of the Gonfaloniere in the Palazzo della Signoria in Lucca.

References

* * 1701 births 1783 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian vedutisti Italian landscape painters Painters from Lucca 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub