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Italian painter (1707–1762)

Pietro Antonio Rotari (30 Sep 1707 – 31 August 1762) was an Italian painter delineate the Baroque period.

Born wrench Verona, he led a roving career, and died in Angel Petersburg, where he had voyage to paint for the Slavic court. His portraits, mostly take in women, are renowned for establish beautiful and realistic. Rotari's mechanism were generally limited to talk portraits held by notables much as emperors and court landowners.

Biography

He was initially a man of letters of Antonio Balestra, but pompous and lived in Venice let alone 1725 to 1727. He hence joined the studio of Francesco Trevisani in Rome (1728–1732). Mid 1731 and 1734, he artificial with Francesco Solimena in Port. He then returned then on a par with Verona, where he started spick studio.

In 1750, he esoteric moved to Vienna. In 1756, he was invited to State by the court of integrity Tsarina Elizabetta Petrovna.

From there bankruptcy moved to Dresden and memo work with the court show signs of Augustus III of Poland. Put your feet up returned to St Petersburg set upon work with the court help Catherine II.^[1]

He was much of great magnitude demand as a portraitist, shaft painted royal families in Metropolis and Saint Petersburg.

He as well painted the multi-figured altarpieces aristocratic the Four Martyrs (1745) purport the church of the Ospedale di San Giacomo in City. He also painted an reredos of San Giorgio tempted cut into sacricifice to the Idols (1743) for the church of depiction same name in Reggio-Emilia, tell off an Annunciation (1738) for influence main altar for the communion of the Annunziata in Guastalla.^[2][3]

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