Giovanni Battista Busiri - Roman Landscape near to a Bridge - WGA03710

Giovanni Battista Busiri or Bussini (

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, 1698 – 28 August 1757) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes and

vedute 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 ...

Biography

He followed the style of

Gaspard Poussin Gaspard Dughet (15 June 1615 – 25 May 1675), also known as Gaspard Poussin, was a French painter born in Rome. Life Dughet was born in Rome, the son of a French pastry-cook and his Italian wife. He has always generally been considered as a F ...

.Supplemento alla Serie dei trecento elogi e ritratti degli uomini i più illustri in Pittura , Scultura, e Architettura.
by Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, published by Stamperia Allegrini, Pisoni, e comp, Florence (1776); column 1352-1353. He was influenced by Jan Frans van Bloemen, Hendrik Frans van Lint, Andrea Locatelli, and

Nicolas Poussin Nicolas Poussin (, , ; June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a ...

.Giovanni Battista Busiri
in the RKD

Notes

Giovanni Battista Busiri: Vedutista Romano Del '700
by Andrea Busiri Vici, Bozzi, 1966.
Uvedale Price (1747-1829): Decoding the Picturesque
by C. Watkins, Ben Cowell, 2012.

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1698 births 1757 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian landscape painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub