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Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (1687–1771) was an Italian painter of rustic landscapes with farms, villas and graceful figures and capricci of ruins and views of towns in the Veneto.
Important early patrons of Cimaroli were Marshal Schulenberg, Count Tessin of Sweden, and the British merchant and diplomat settled in Venice, Joseph (Consul) Smith. It was through the disposition of Consul Smith's art collection, hand-picked by Smith for
Gio: Batista Cimaroli
''Abecedario Pittorico del m.r.p.'' Pellegrino, Antonio Orlandi; and Pietro Guarienti. Venezia, 1753.
Giovanni Battista Cimaroli
3 works,
''Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection''
a collection catalog containing information about the artist and his works (see p. 256, plate 103 on following page). {{DEFAULTSORT:Cimaroli, Giovanni Battista 1687 births 1771 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Brescia 18th-century Italian male artists
Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (1687–1771) was an Italian painter of rustic landscapes with farms, villas and graceful figures and capricci of ruins and views of towns in the Veneto.
Biography
He was born inSalò
Salò (; la, Salodium) is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Brescia in the region of Lombardy (northern Italy) on the banks of Lake Garda, on which it has the longest promenade. The city was the seat of government of the Italian Social R ...
on Lake Garda, not far from Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...
. He studied under Antonio Aureggio and later in Bologna with the landscape painter Antonio Calza, before moving to Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...
around 1713. Cimaroli's rustic landscapes are reminiscent of the Arcadian scenes of Francesco Zuccarelli
Giacomo Francesco Zuccarelli (commonly known as Francesco Zuccarelli, ; 15 August 1702 – 30 December 1788) RA, was an Italian artist of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He is considered to be the most important landscape painter to hav ...
, influenced by a tradition of Lombardian realism.
Cimaroli collaborated c. 1722–6, with Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Painter of city views or ...
(amongst other Venetian painters) on Owen McSwiney's unusual ''Allegorical Tombs'' series, whose aim was to memorialize British worthies, the main sponsor being the 2nd Duke of Richmond. Caneletto's ''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 ...
'' became the inspiration for Cimaroli's own topographical views of Venice, which until recently have often been concealed under misattributions to Canaletto.
Important early patrons of Cimaroli were Marshal Schulenberg, Count Tessin of Sweden, and the British merchant and diplomat settled in Venice, Joseph (Consul) Smith. It was through the disposition of Consul Smith's art collection, hand-picked by Smith for King George III
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
, that six landscapes by Cimaroli entered the Royal Collection
The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world.
Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the ...
, of which three oval views survive. Cimaroli, despite the esteem of contemporaries, was nearly forgotten until the mid-twentieth century, but has undergone a revival of critical interest, typified by the publication of the first catalogue raisonné of his paintings.
Notes
References
* * *Haskell, Francis (1980). ''Patrons and Painters: A Study of the Relations between Italian Art and Society in the Age of the Baroque.'' Revised and Enlarged edition. Yale University Press. New Haven and London. * *Spadotto, Federica (2009). "Zuccarelli tra emuli, imitatori e copisti", p. 324–7. In ''L'impegno e la conoscenza: studi di storia dell'arte in onore di Egido Martina.'' Pedrocco, Filippo and Alberto Craievich, eds. Verona: Scripta edizioni. *External links
*Gio: Batista Cimaroli
''Abecedario Pittorico del m.r.p.'' Pellegrino, Antonio Orlandi; and Pietro Guarienti. Venezia, 1753.
Giovanni Battista Cimaroli
3 works,
Royal Collection
The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world.
Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the ...
, e-gallery.''Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection''
a collection catalog containing information about the artist and his works (see p. 256, plate 103 on following page). {{DEFAULTSORT:Cimaroli, Giovanni Battista 1687 births 1771 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Brescia 18th-century Italian male artists