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| Pompeo Batoni Aeneas fleeing Troy with Anchises and Ascanius 1753 oil on canvas Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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| Pompeo Batoni Aeneas abandoning Dido 1747 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Pompeo Batoni Thetis entrusting Achilles to Chiron 1770 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale, Parma |
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| 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
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| Pompeo Batoni Vulcanus 1750 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Pompeo Batoni Vulcanus before 1787 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Pompeo Batoni Acis and Galatea threatened by Polyphemus 1761 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| Pompeo Batoni Infant Hercules strangling Serpents in his Cradle 1743 oil on canvas Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Pompeo Batoni Hercules at the Crossroads 1765 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pompeo Batoni Hercules at the Crossroads 1748 oil on canvas Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna |
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| Pompeo Batoni Venus and Cupid before 1787 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Pompeo Batoni Marriage of Cupid and Psyche 1756 oil on canvas Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Pompeo Batoni Diana and Cupid 1761 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pompeo Batoni Continence of Scipio 1771 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |