• Biography

    Pietro Paltronieri (Mirandola, Italy, 1673 – Bologna, Italy, 1741)

    Born in Mirandola in 1673, he trained under the Ligurian figurist Giovanni Francesco Cassana, a student of Bernardo Strozzi. After moving to Bologna, he joined the school of Marc'Antonio Chiarini, a prominent scenographer and painter of illusionistic architecture.

    In 1697, he traveled to Vienna with Chiarini to work at the imperial court, where he painted frescoes for the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene of Savoy.

    Between 1724 and 1733, he collaborated with figurist Vittorio Maria Bigari on a series of seven paintings commissioned by Pompeo Aldrovandi, now housed in Bologna's Municipal Art Collections. Paltronieri also worked in other Italian cities, such as Genoa, where he created paintings with ruins for the decoration of Palazzo Rosso.

    In 1722, he was chosen by Owen McSwiny to paint the "Tombeaux des Princes," a series of allegorical paintings honoring deceased British personalities, including the "Allegorical Tomb of Charles Sackville" in tribute to Lionel Cranfield Sackville.

    The artist passed away in Bologna in 1741.

     

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