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Pietro Rotari

Italian painter (1707–1762)

Field	Value
name	Pietro Rotari
birth_name	Pietro Antonio Rotari
birth_place	Verona
birth_date	30 September 1707
death_date
death_place	Saint Petersburg
image	File:Pietro Antonio Rotari self-portrait.jpg
caption	Self-portrait,

Pietro Antonio Rotari (30 September 1707 – 31 August 1762) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Verona, he led a peripatetic career, and died in Saint Petersburg, where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court. His portraits, mostly of women, are renowned for being beautiful and realistic. Rotari's works were generally limited to royal portraits held by notables such as emperors and court ladies.

Biography

He was initially a pupil of Antonio Balestra, but moved and lived in Venice from 1725 to 1727. He then joined the studio of Francesco Trevisani in Rome (1728–1732). Between 1731 and 1734, he worked with Francesco Solimena in Naples. He then returned then to Verona, where he started a studio. In 1750, he had moved to Vienna. In 1756, he was invited to Russia by the court of the Tsarina Elizabetta Petrovna. From there he moved to Dresden and to work with the court of Augustus III of Poland. He returned to St Petersburg to work with the court of Catherine II.

He was much in demand as a portraitist, and painted royal families in Dresden and Saint Petersburg. He also painted the multi-figured altarpieces of the Four Martyrs (1745) for the church of the Ospedale di San Giacomo in Verona. He also painted an altarpiece of San Giorgio tempted to sacricifice to the Idols (1743) for the church of the same name in Reggio-Emilia, and an Annunciation (1738) for the main altar for the church of the Annunziata in Guastalla.

Gallery

| File:Bemberg Fondation Toulouse - Portrait de jeune femme - Pietro Antonio Rotari- Inv.1042.jpg | Portrait of a Woman Foundation Bemberg | File:Rotari, Pietro Antonio - Sleeping Girl - 18th century.jpg | A Sleeping Woman | File:'A Girl in a Blue Dress', oil on canvas painting by Pietro Rotari , 1755, El Paso Museum of Art.jpg | A Young Woman with Blue Dress | File:Pietro Rotari - Young Woman and a Fan.jpg | A Young Woman with a Fan | File:'A Girl in a Red Dress', oil on canvas painting by Pietro Antonio Rotari, 1755, El Paso Museum of Art.jpg | A Young Woman with Red Dress | File:Rotari, Pietro Antonio - Portrait of a Young Girl, La Penitente.jpg | Portrait of a Young Girl | File:Peterhof palace 11.jpg |368 Portraits of girls at Rotari Hall in Peterhoff, Saint- Petersburg

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References

[http://www.comune.verona.it/media//_ComVR/Cdr/Dir_mus_mon/VR%20Illustrata%202011/12_VR_ILL_2011_IEVOLELLA.pdf Pietro Antonio Rotari in Emilia], by Lucia Ievolella.
[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dIXYoHx46-4C Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico.] By Giuseppe Campori, pages 426.
Lucia Ievolella monograph.

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