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Gaspare Maria Paoletti (December 6, 1727 - February 19, 1813) was a Neoclassical sculptor and architect, active mainly in his native

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, region of Tuscany, Italy.

Biography

Paoletti mainly worked for the Tuscan Grand-Dukes of the Hapsburg-Lorraine, and its successors. He became a professor at the

Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze ("academy of fine arts of Florence") is an instructional art academy in Florence, in Tuscany, in central Italy. It was founded by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1563, under the influence of Giorgio Vasari. M ...

. Among his works are the Palazzina della Meridiana (1775), the White Hall (1776), and the Museum of La Specola, all attached to the

Palazzo Pitti The Palazzo Pitti (), in English sometimes called the Pitti Palace, is a vast, mainly Renaissance, palace in Florence, Italy. It is situated on the south side of the River Arno, a short distance from the Ponte Vecchio. The core of the present ...

. He helped redecorate the ''Sala della Niobe'' in the

Uffizi Gallery The Uffizi Gallery (; it, Galleria degli Uffizi, italic=no, ) is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian muse ...

.C. Cresti, ''La Toscana dei Lorena. Politica del territorio e architettura'', Cinisello Balsamo 1987, p. 146. He worked extensively at the Villa di Poggio Imperiale (1776-1783), and a number of structures at

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(1780). For the latter, he designed the Terme Leopoldine, Bagno del Tettuccio, the Palazzina Reale, and the Locanda Maggiore. Among his pupils were Giuseppe Manetti, Giuseppe Cacialli, Cosimo Rossi Melocchi, and Pasquale Poccianti.

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Biography with some photosJuly 2014
*Paraphrased from Italian Wikipedia entry. {{DEFAULTSORT:Paoletti Gaspare Maria 1727 births 1813 deaths 18th-century Italian architects 19th-century Italian architects Italian neoclassical architects Architects from Florence