Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti (14 April 1764 – 29 April 1831) was an Italian civil and military architect, as well as painter. He painted landscapes and battle paintings. I Francesi passano il Po a Piacenza Bagetti

I Francesi passano il Po a Piacenza Bagetti

Biography

He was born in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

. He initially studied music at the Turin Conservatory under Bernardino Ottani, and learned painting from Pietro Giacomo Palmieri (1737–1804). Bagetti was named an architect in 1782 for the Royal University, and began and paint watercolor

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 ...

of coastal locations. In 1792, he began to teach topographic design at the Royal Academy. In 1792, he painted two battle scenes from the recent war between the kingdom of Sardinia and the French Republic: the ''Veduta di Saorgio'' and the ''Veduta del campo di Brois nel contado di Nizza''. In 1793, King

Vittorio Amedeo III Victor Amadeus III (Vittorio Amadeo Maria; 26 June 1726 – 16 October 1796) was King of Sardinia from 1773 to his death. Although he was politically conservative, he carried out numerous administrative reforms until he declared war on Revolut ...

named him designer of ''vedute e paesi'' for the kingdom. He was affiliated with the Artillery Corps. In 1798, he traveled to Paris. He continued the same work for the Napoleonic rulers, including battle plans at the

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, travelling with the French army through Northern Italy, and later in Germany and Russia. From 1807 to 1815, he was a geographic engineer for the Napoleonic government. He was awarded the

Legion of Honor The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

medal for his ''Veduta d’Italia dalle Alpi''. With the fall of Napoleon, he regained his post as professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (

Albertina Academy The Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti ("Albertina Academy of Fine Arts") is an institution of higher education in Turin, Italy History In the first half of the seventeenth century, there was a "University of Painters, Sculptors and Architects" ...

) and celebrated the return of the House of Savoy with paintings depicting ''The May 20, 1814 Entry into Turin of Vittorio Emanuele I'' and ''The August 22, 1815 entry of Queen Maria Teresa to the Port of Genoa''. He went on to paint for the Royal Palace, thirty-two paintings of battles, many depicting events of the First Campaign in Italy by Napoleon, including the ''Battle of Carassone''. Following a commission by Duke of Genoa, and future King of Sardinia Carlo Felice in 1820, Bagetti also painted several fictional landscapes. In these works, he displayed his capacity to represent in great details natural phenomena, including their botanical and geological features. He was knighted into the

Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus The Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus ( it, Ordine dei Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro) (abbreviated OSSML) is a Roman Catholic dynastic order of knighthood bestowed by the royal House of Savoy. It is the second-oldest order of knighthood in the wo ...

and the Order of Savoy by the Italian monarchs. Among those engravers he influenced were Giovanni Battista de Gubernatis.Istituto Matteucci
short biography. He died in Turin on 29 April 1831.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bagetti, Giuseppe Pietro 1764 births 1831 deaths Engineers from Turin 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 19th-century Italian painters Italian battle painters Italian landscape painters Academic staff of Accademia Albertina Italian expatriates in France 19th-century Italian male artists 18th-century Italian male artists