Francesco Battaglioli Explained

.Francesco Battaglioli (Modena, 1725 – Venice, 1796) was an Italian painter, known as painter of veduta and capriccios based on the scenery of Venice and the Venetian mainland (Brescia and Treviso).

Biography

Battaglioli was born in Modena. 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 as professor of perspective in 1778.

Some of his veduta are of Aranjuez in Spain,^[1] where he went to paint scenery sets for the Reales Coliseos theater held in the Palacio Real de Aranjuez for the delight of Ferdinand VI. It is believed they were a set of at least four, of which two are exhibited at the Prado Museum in Madrid.^[2] Here he also worked with Farinelli in painting stage sets for Pietro Metastasio's operas. From that series four of them are preserved at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (La Nitteti, Didone Abbandonata, Armida Placata Second Act, scene VII, and Knight fighting dragons in a forest),^[3] another at the Prado (Armida Placata First Act, scene IV).^[4] Battaglioli's veduta were engraved by Francisco Zucchi and used to illustrate Baldassare Camillo Zamboni's Memorie intorno alle pubbliche fabbriche (1778).

References

• Torrione, Margarita, Francesco Battaglioli. Escenografías para el Real Teatro del Buen Retiro (exhibition catalogue), Madrid, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Teatro de la Zarzuela, INAEM, 2013.
• Torrione, Margarita, Nueve óleos de Francesco Battaglioli para el Coliseo del Buen Retiro. (La ópera en el reinado de Fernando VI: último relumbrón de la Corte Barroca.), in J. Martínez Millán, C. Camarero Bullón, M. Luzzi Traficante (coords.), La corte de los Borbones: crisis del modelo cortesano, Madrid, Ed. Polifemo, 2013, vol. 3, pp. 1733–1777.
• TORRIONE, Margarita, "La sociedad de Corte y el ritual de la ópera", in Fernando VI y Bárbara de Braganza. Un reinado bajo el signo de la paz : 1746-1759, exhibition catalogue, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (RABASF), Madrid, 2002, pp. 165–195. .
• TORRIONE, Margarita, "Decorados teatrales para el Coliseo del Buen Retiro. Cuatro óleos de Francesco Battaglioli", Reales Sitios (Revista del Patrimonio Nacional), n° 143, 2000, pp. 40–51.
• TORRIONE, Margarita, «El Real Coliseo del Buen Retiro: memoria de una arquitectura desaparecida», in TORRIONE, Margarita (dir.), España festejante. El Siglo XVIII, Málaga, CEDMA, 2000, pp. 295–322. .
• TORRIONE, Margarita, Crónica festiva de dos reinados en la Gaceta de Madrid : 1700-1759, Paris, Ophrys, 1998. .
• J.G. Links. Canaletto and his Patrons, Paul Elek Ltd, London (1977). pp. 99–100.
• Grove encyclopedia entry on Artnet
• Domenico Sedini, Francesco Battaglioli, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA.

Notes and References

1. Web site: View of The Palace of Aranjuez - The Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado. October 23, 2020. www.museodelprado.es.
2. Web site: Ferdinand VI and Barbara of Braganza in the Gardens of Aranjuez - The Collection - Museo Nacional del Prado. October 23, 2020. www.museodelprado.es.
3. Web site: Fernando. Real Academia de BBAA de San. Battaglioli, Francesco. October 23, 2020. Academia Colecciones. es.
4. Web site: Decorado para Armida Placata - Colección - Museo Nacional del Prado. October 23, 2020. www.museodelprado.es.