Giuseppe Piattoli Explained

Giuseppe Piattoli the Younger (1748 – 1834) was an Italian painter and engraver, active mainly in Florence.[1]

His brother Gaetano and his mother, Anna Bacherini Piattoli, were painters.[2] His father, Giuseppe Piattoli the elder was an engraver, active for a time in Sardinia. He is thought to have trained portrait artist Anna Tonelli.[3]

There are works by Servolini in the church of Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi. He engraved a series of the Miracles of the miracles of the 16th-century Dominican mystic Bartolomea Bagnesi. He was appointed by Grand Duke of Tuscany, Peter Leopold to posts at the Real Galleria and the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence.

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=6_OG1xMON9cC 18th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2. http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/PIATTOLIa.pdf Profile of Anna Bacherini Piattoli
  3. Book: Jeffares, Neil. Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800. online. 2019.