SOLD Pietro Paltronieri (1673-1741) attr.

Pietro Paltronieri, known as il Mirandolese (Mirandola 1673 - Bologna 1741) attributed, oil on canvas depicting architecture. 79x97 cm Pietro, known as il Mirandolese or Mirandolese of perspectives for the genre of painting in which he excelled, was a student of Giovanni Francesco Cassana and Marcantonio Chiarini at the court of the Pico della Mirandola. The first important commission obtained by the artist in Bologna was a group of ten paintings, dated 1712, for the Sage-Marulli house. The paintings depict grandiose buildings in which scenes of a mythological nature take place, with Danae, Europa, and Zeus as protagonists. Around 1720, after a formative trip to Vienna and Rome, he created paintings for Palazzo Caprara, inspired by what he had seen in the city of Lazio. Paltronieri was part of a group of artists selected from 1722 by Owen McSwiny to create a series of allegorical paintings in honor of the great deceased British personalities. He created the painting 'Allegorical Tomb of Charles Sackvill' in honor of Lionel Cranfield Sackville, son of Charles. Between 1724 and 1733 he collaborated with the figure painter Vittorio Maria Bigari in the creation of a series of seven canvases, commissioned by Pompeo Aldrovandi, now preserved at the Collezioni comunali d'arte in Bologna. Another figure painter with whom Paltronieri collaborated was Ercole Graziani. He worked in various Italian locations, such as Genoa where he created a series of paintings with ruins for the decoration of Palazzo Rosso, and resided for some years in Rome. Returning to Bologna, he died there in 1741.