Francesco Battaglioli
Francesco Battaglioli (Modena, 1725 – Venice, 1796) was an Italian painter, known as painter of veduta and capriccios based on the scenery of Venice and the Venetian mainland (Brescia and Treviso).
Biography
Battaglioli was born in Modena. He is said to have been a pupil of Raffaello Rinaldi. He joined the Fraglia or guild of painters in Venice between 1747-51. He became a member of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 1772, and he succeeded Antonio Visentini as professor of perspective in 1778.
Some of his veduta are of Aranjuez in Spain, where he went to paint scenery sets for the Reales Coliseos theater held in the Palacio Real de Aranjuez for the delight of Ferdinand VI. Here he also worked with Farinelli in painting stage sets for Pietro Metastasio's La Nitteti in 1758. Battaglioli's veduta were engraved by Francisco Zucchi and used to illustrate Baldassare Camillo Zamboni’s Memorie intorno alle pubbliche fabbriche (1778).
References
- Torrione, Margarita, Francesco Battaglioli. Escenografías para el Real Teatro del Buen Retiro (exhibition catalogue), Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Teatro de la Zarzuela, INAEM, 2013.
- Torrione, Margarita, Nueve óleos de Francesco Battaglioli para el Coliseo del Buen Retiro. (La ópera en el reinado de Fernando VI: último relumbrón de la Corte Barroca.), in J. Martínez Millán, C. Camarero Bullón, M. Luzzi Traficante (coords.), La corte de los Borbones: crisis del modelo cortesano, Madrid, Ed. Polifemo, 2013, vol. 3, pp. 1733–1777.
- TORRIONE, Margarita, "La sociedad de Corte y el ritual de la ópera", in Fernando VI y Bárbara de Braganza. Un reinado bajo el signo de la paz : 1746-1759, exhibition catalogue, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF), Madrid, 2002, pp. 165–195. ISBN 84-369-3632-9.
- TORRIONE, Margarita, "Decorados teatrales para el Coliseo del Buen Retiro. Cuatro óleos de Francesco Battaglioli", Reales Sitios (Revista del Patrimonio Nacional), n° 143, 2000, pp. 40–51.
- TORRIONE, Margarita, «El Real Coliseo del Buen Retiro: memoria de una arquitectura desaparecida», in TORRIONE, Margarita (dir.), España festejante. El Siglo XVIII, Málaga, CEDMA, 2000, pp. 295–322. ISBN 84-7785-370-3.
- TORRIONE, Margarita, Crónica festiva de dos reinados en la Gaceta de Madrid : 1700-1759, Paris, Ophrys, 1998. ISBN 2-7080-0861-7.
- J.G. Links. Canaletto and his Patrons, Paul Elek Ltd, London (1977). pp. 99–100.
- Grove encyclopedia entry on Artnet
- Domenico Sedini, Francesco Battaglioli, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA.
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