- Pietro Bianchi (painter)
Pietro Bianchi (September 1694-1740) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque period, active inGenoa andRome .Pietro’s father, Giovanni Bianchi, had moved from
Sarzana toRome in 1682. His sister was married to an attendant to the household of the Marchese Marcello Sacchetti, who noted the boy Pietro’s affinity for drawing. As a boy he was place in the apprenticeship of a painter J. Triga, but then passed on to work in the school of the GenoeseGiovanni Battista Gaulli . In 1707, at age 13, he won a drawing competition sponsored by theAccademia di San Luca . In 1709, when Gaulli died, and he entered the studio ofGiuseppe Ghezzi then underBenedetto Luti . He painted both religious stories andstill life pictures of animals, flowers, and fruits.Bianchi died at 46 years of age. Giovanni Frossi was on of his pupils.
He painted a "St. Clara" at
Gubbio , and a picture of the "Conception" for the church ofSanta Maria degli Angeli atRome , of which a mosaic copy is in a chapel ofSt. Peter's Basilica .References
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