View of Piazza San Marco in Venice, by Antonio Visentini (1742).Palace Giusti on Grand Canal in Venice, facade by Antonio Visentini
Antonio Visentini (21 November 1688 – 26 June 1782) was aVenetian architectural designer, painter and engraver, known for his architectural fantasies andcapricci, the author of treatises on perspective and a professor at the Venetian Academy.
Born in Venice, Visentini was a pupil of the widely travelled Baroque painterGiovanni Antonio Pellegrini,[1] who had painted some decors inEnglish country houses at the beginning of the 18th century. Visentini is best known today as the engraver forCanaletto's first great series of Venetianvedute published under the titleUrbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores ex Antonii Canal,[2] organised by British residentJoseph (Consul) Smith (1682–1770). The series was begun around 1728 and by the time it was completed in 1735, thirty-eight etchings and engravings had been printed.
On the Grand Canal, Visentini was commissioned to redesign the façade of the residence of Consul Smith, thePalazzo Smith Mangilli Valmarana. He collaborated withFrancesco Zuccarelli on capriccios based on English Palladian villas, again for Consul Smith;[3] some have passed with Smith's collection to the BritishRoyal Collection. InVicenza, Visentini painted frescoes at theVilla Valmarana, for whichGian Domenico Tiepolo painted the figures. In the 1760s the English architectJames Wyatt studied with him as an architectural draughtsman and painter.
Visentini's work, theOsservazioni,[4] published in Venice in 1771, was intended as a complement and an extension of a treatise by Teofilo Gallacini (1564–1641), which concerned itself with the errors ofMannerist and earlyBaroque architecture.[5] Visentini's engravings in theOsservazioni illustrate his proposed modifications correcting Baroque architectural details.
Visentini taught at theAccademia di Belle Arti in Venice from 1772–78, and he died in Venice in 1782.
^Pellegrino, Antonio Orlandi.Abecedario pittorico del M.R.P. Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, bolognese, contenente le notizie de' professori di pittura, scoltura, ed architettura. Giambatista Pasquali: Venice, 1753.
^Canal, Giovanni Antonio; and Antonio Visentini.Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores ex Antonii Canal tabulis XXXVIII, aere expressi ab Antonio Visentini in partes tres distributi. J.B. Pasquali: Venice, 1742.
^Knox, George (June 1996). "Consul Smith's villa at Mogliano: Antonio Visentini and Francesco Zuccarelli". Apollo CXLIII: 32–38.
^Visentini, Antonio.Osservazioni di Antonio Visentini, architetto veneto, che servono di continuazione al trattato di Teofilo Gallacini sopra gli errori degli architetti. Giambatista Pasquali: Venice, 1771.
^Gallacini's work,Trattato di Teofilo Gallacini sopra gli errori degli architetti, ora per la prima volta pubblicato, did not see publication for more than a century until 1767, when it appeared under the imprint of the Venetian publisher,Giovanni Battista Pasquali, who also brought out Visentini's treatise.
Delneri, Annalia (1988). "Antonio Visentini: 1688–1782," inCapricci veneziani del Settecento a cura di Dario Succi (Torino: Umberto Allemandi).
Lazzaro, Claudia (1981).Eighteenth-Century Italian Prints. (Stanford).
Links, J.G. (1977).Canaletto and his Patrons, Paul Elek Ltd, London. p. 97–98.
Succi, D., ed (1986).Canaletto & Visentini, Venezia & Londra: catalogo della mostra alla Galleria d’arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro. Edition Bertoncello–Tedeschi: Venezia.
Visentini, Antonio.Osservazioni di Antonio Visentini, architetto veneto, che servono di continuazione al trattato di Teofilo Gallacini sopra gli errori degli architetti.Giambatista Pasquali: Venice, 1771.[2]
Biographical sketch of Antonio Visentini in: Pellegrino, Antonio Orlandi.Abecedario pittorico del m.r.p. Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, bolognese, contenente le notizie de' professori di pittura, scoltura, ed architettura. Giambatista Pasquali: Venice, 1753.[3]
Vat.lat.8482, Antonio Maria Visentini L'introductione Della soda e reale Architettura, e Prospetiva di Antonio Visentini, Veneto (c. 1764)[4]
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