Giovanni Paolo Panini (1691–1765)
Giovanni Paolo Panini was an architect, painter, and professor. He is known as a vedutisti, which is a painter of a veduta (Italian for ‘view’). A veduta is a highly detailed painting of a certain view, such as a city or landscape. While born in Piacenza, he spent most of his life in Rome, which has been the dominant theme in his paintings.
Blogs about Works of Panini
Ancient Rome (1757)
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Interior of the Pantheon (1747) at the Cleveland Museum of Art
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Interior of the Pantheon (c. 1734) at the National Gallery of Art
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Modern Rome (1757)
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