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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Pietro Antoniani was born in Milan, though sadly, little is known of this poorly documented artist. Some of his known works are dated 1771, 1775 and 1776, and though it is not known exactly when he moved to Naples, many of his paintings depict scenes and views in this area, and were popular with English collectors. As well as painting individual works and pairs of paintings, Antoniani, in common with other painters of vedute, also worked on larger sets of pictures which were intended to be seen together. It is possible that the Laing's works fall into this category. This small painting depicts the city of Naples with Vesuvius erupting in the background. Vesuvius is famous for the catastrophic eruption of 79AD which buried the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii in volcanic ash. It is the most dangerous volcano on the European mainland, and has erupted many times since - six times in the eighteenth century, followed by eight times in the nineteenth. | Subjects: | townscape; landscape; marine; figure; buildings and gardens; place (Naples) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Antoniani, Pietro (Italian painter, born 1740-1750, died 1805) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8647... | Go to resource |
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