Giovanni Paolo Panini

Giovanni Paolo Panini
Portrait of Panini by Louis Gabriel Blanchet
Born	(1691-06-17)17 June 1691 Piacenza, Duchy of Parma, Holy Roman Empire
Died	21 October 1765(1765-10-21) (aged 74) Rome, Papal States (now Italy)
Nationality	Italian
Other names	Gian Paolo Panini/Pannini
Movement	Baroque

Giovanni Paolo, also known as Gian Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765), was an Italian painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the vedutisti ("view painters"). As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of Rome, in which he took a particular interest in the city's antiquities. Among his most famous works are his view of the interior of the Pantheon (on behalf of Francesco Algarotti), and his vedute—paintings of picture galleries containing views of Rome. Most of his works, especially those of ruins, have a fanciful and unreal embellishment characteristic of capriccio themes. In this they resemble the capricci of Marco Ricci. Panini also painted portraits, including one of Pope Benedict XIV.^[1]