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Pietro Rotari
Paintings
A Girl with a Flower in Her Hair
A Girl in a Blue Dress
A Girl in a Red Dress
A Sleeping Girl
Young Woman with a Sprig of Jasmine
Alexander The Great and Roxane
Countess A.M. Vorontsova
King Augustus III of Poland
Queen Maria Josepha
Sleeping Girl
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Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707–1762) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Verona, he led a peripatetic career, and died in St Petersburg, where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court.
He was initially pupil of Antonio Balestra, but moved from 1725 to 1727 to Venice, then joined the studio of Francesco Trevisani in Rome (1728–1732), and finally between 1731–1734 he worked with Francesco Solimena in Naples. He then returned then to Verona, where he started a studio. But soon he was off to paint for royal and aristocratic patrons in Dresden, Vienna, and Munich.
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.
References
* Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum. ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. pp. page 158. http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:Wornum+intitle:principal+intitle:painters.
