Francesco Battaglioli was an Italian

Italy

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 painter

Painting

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, known as painter of veduta

Veduta

A veduta is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista....

and cappriccios

Capriccio (painting)

In painting, a capriccio , means especially an architectural fantasy, placing together buildings, archaeological remains and other architectural elements in fictional and often fantastical combinations, perhaps with staffage of figures. It fits under the more general term of landscape painting...

based on the scenery of Venice

Venice

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 and the Venetian mainland (Brescia

Brescia

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 and Treviso

Treviso

Treviso is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 82,854 inhabitants : some 3,000 live within the Venetian walls or in the historical and monumental center, some 80,000 live in the urban center proper, while the city...

).

Biography

Battaglioli was born in Modena

Modena

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. He is said to have been a pupil of Raffaello Rinaldi. He joined the Fraglia or guild of painters in Venice between 1747-51. He became a member of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 1772, and he succeeded Antonio Visentini

Antonio Visentini

thumb|220px|View of Piazza San Marco in Venice, by Antonio Visentini .Antonio Visentini was an Italian architectural designer, painter and engraver, known for his architectural fantasies and capricci, the author of treatises on perspective and professor at the Venetian Academy...

 as professor of perspective in 1778.

Some of his veduta are of Aranjuez

Aranjuez

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 in Spain, where he went to paint scenery sets for the Reales Coliseos theater held in the Palacio Real de Aranjuez

Palacio Real de Aranjuez

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 for the delight of Ferdinand VI. Here he also worked with Farinelli

Farinelli

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 in painting stage sets for Pietro Metastasio's La Nitteti in 1758. Battaglioli's veduta were engraved by Francisco Zucchi and used to illustrate Baldassare Camillo Zamboni’s Memorie intorno alle pubbliche fabbriche (1778).

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