Friday, April 12, 2019

Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787) - Rome- II

Pompeo Batoni
Aeneas fleeing Troy with Anchises and Ascanius
1753
oil on canvas
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Pompeo Batoni
Aeneas abandoning Dido
1747
oil on canvas
private collection

Pompeo Batoni
Thetis entrusting Achilles to Chiron
1770
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale, Parma

Pompeo Batoni
Thetis entrusting Achilles to Chiron
1770
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

"Pompeo Batoni has been described as 'Italy's last Old Master' and he was certainly the last great Italian personality to dominate painting in Rome, where he spent virtually his whole career after settling there in 1727."

"In a varying degree, all three artists [Marco Benefial, Pierre Subleyras, and Pompeo Batoni] take up special positions on the borderline between Rococo and Neo-classicism.  These masters, and even Batoni in pictures farthest on the road to Neo-classicism, stuck tenaciously to Late Baroque formulae of composition.  Nor is the lyric, languid, and often sentimental range of expressions really divorced from contemporary painting." 

– Rudolf Wittkower, from Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750, originally published in 1958, revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu and reissued in 1999 by Yale University Press 

Pompeo Batoni
Vulcanus
1750
oil on canvas
private collection

Pompeo Batoni
Vulcanus
before 1787
oil on canvas
private collection

Pompeo Batoni
Acis and Galatea threatened by Polyphemus
1761
oil on canvas
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Pompeo Batoni
Infant Hercules strangling Serpents in his Cradle
1743
oil on canvas
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

Pompeo Batoni
Hercules at the Crossroads
1765
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
 
Pompeo Batoni
Hercules at the Crossroads
1748
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Pompeo Batoni
Venus and Cupid
before 1787
oil on canvas
private collection

Pompeo Batoni
Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
1756
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Pompeo Batoni
Diana and Cupid
1761
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Pompeo Batoni
Continence of Scipio
1771
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg