Pietro Paoletti (1801 in
Belluno
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– October 23, 1847 in Belluno) was an Italian painter and engraver.
Biography
He took fresco training with
Giovanni De Min. In 1827, he traveled to Rome on the recommendation of Count
Leopoldo Cicognara
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Early life, education, and political career
Cicognara attended the Collegio dei Nobili in M ...
, and there found patronage with Cardinal
Placido Zurla in the court of
Pope Gregory XVI. In Rome, he worked under the
Neoclassic painter
Camuccini
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Biography
Camuccini was born in Rome, and fir ...
.
His skill as a fresco artist, put him in demand across the peninsula. Among his works are frescoes for the Basilica in the Abbey of
Monte Cassino, the church of
Santa Maria Formosa in Venice, and for many of the Torlonia properties in Rome including Palazzo Torloni in
Piazza Venezia
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and
Villa Torlonia in Rome (the latter had stories from Aesop's fables as well a portraits of artists seen below). He also frescoed the apse and the cupola of the Cathedral of
Rieti
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with stories from the bible. He also painted for or his works are found in Villa de Manzoni near
Agordo
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, Palazzo Ricci in Rieti, Palazzo Lucernari and del Governatore in Rome, Church of
San Isidoro, Rome, Casa dell’Intendente in
L'Aquila
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,
San Francesco, Naples, Chapel of Pius V and in the Loggia of the Vatican, the famous
Caffè Pedrocchi
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and Palazzo Cittadella-Vigodarzere in
Padua, Villa Patt in
Sedico, Palazzo Bortolan and Palazzo Spineda in
Treviso, Palazzo Vecchia in
Vicenza.
He also is known to have made plaster cast
cameos or
Intaglios. This was a peculiar art form from the early, pre-photographic, 19th century: small reliefs were sculpted to depict either parts or all of major works. The impressions of these reliefs were then pressed on to oval or round plaster medallions. These mementoes were then bound into volumes. They were mementoes of prominent works in Rome. For example, one set by Paoletti had works from the
Capitoline, (Rome),
Uffizi,
the Louvre
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,
Capodimonte, and Vatican museums; as well as works from Villa Albani and by
Canova, and
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Paoletti plaster casts
/ref> His brother Giuseppe Paoletti was a vedute painter.
Frescoes in Villa Torlonia
References
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1801 births
1847 deaths
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
People from Belluno
19th-century Italian male artists