Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini ( born April 29, 1675 Venice, † November 2, 1741 ) was an Italian painter.
With Sebastiano Ricci and Jacopo Amigoni he is one of the most important Venetian history painter of the early 18th century. He created great decorative wall paintings and was especially successful with his clients from the aristocracy of Central and Western Europe. He traveled extensively and worked in Austria, England, the Netherlands, Germany and France.
Life
Pellegrini received his early training as a painter in the workshop of Paolo Pagani Lombard painter, he could accompany you on trips to Vienna and Moravia as a teenager. His uncle brought the twenties for further training to Rome, where he could be perfected under the influence of Luca Giordano and Baciccia in painting. There he developed his typical graceful and light painting with airy, delicate pastel colors that came to meet the tastes of his time so. After his return to Venice, he was entrusted with many important jobs. In 1701 he worked for the Scuola del Cristo di S.Marcuola and for Corporatione della lana. 1702 to 1703 he painted the ceiling fresco in Padua for the library. Pellegrini married in 1704 the sister of Rosalba Carriera Venetian painter who was one of the most sought after Venetian artists of their time.
In 1708 he went at the invitation of Lord Manchester together with Marco Ricci to England, where he stayed until 1713. He was there at first very successful, received orders for murals in a number of English country houses, for Castle Howard, the Kimbolton Castle at Cambridge and was for Henry Bentinck, 2nd Earl of Portland, works for which he painted a hall and a staircase. In 1711 he became head of the London Kneller Academy of Painting and Drawing. Pellegrini presented at Christopher Wren designs for a decorative paintings of the dome of St. Paul's, but lost its competitor James Thornhill.
As the orders eased and the aristocracy increasingly Marco and Sebastiano Ricci gave the preference, he left England in 1713 and went to the Düsseldorf court of the Jan Wellem, for which he, inter alia, a series of 14 painted allegories for Schloss Bensberg. The Garrison Church Dusseldorf received some pictures of Pellegrini. After the death of his patron, he often changed his whereabouts. How many travelers Italian artists of his time, he traveled to where he was called by the respective patron. 1716 he was in Antwerp, in 1718 in The Hague, where he painted a hall in the Mauritshuis, 1719 in London and Paris, in 1722 in Ettal and again in Paris, 1724 in Würzburg and Prague, 1725 in Dresden and Vienna, 1732 in Padua and Venice 1733 he was again in Paris, where he was elected to the Academy, after which he was in Mannheim. After finishing the ceiling in Mannheim Castle, he returned permanently to Venice.
1741 Pellegrini died in his native city.
Painting
- The Queen Tomyris, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 1708/13
- The St. Cecilia, State Gallery of Stuttgart
- Allegory of Sculpture, 1730, Accademia Gallery, Venice
- The modesty of the Academy presented the painting, 1733, Louvre, Paris
- The Brazen Serpent, San Moise in Venice
- The English greeting, altar paintings in the monastery church of Cölestinerinnen in Ratingen road, after 1794 added to the garrison church Dusseldorf
- Jesus Hands Peter the keys of the kingdom, Dom St. Petri ( Bautzen )