In the history of art, Pietro Longhi is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Pietro Longhi as Italian painter (1701-1785).
Pietro Longhi was born at Venice in 1701. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Academies set the rules in this period - what counted as a serious subject, and who was allowed to train.
He worked as painter, draftsperson and visual artist.
Among his best-known works are The Casino, Portrait of a Venetian Family with a Manservant Serving Coffee and Presentation. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Pietro Longhi died in 1785, aged 84. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Casino
- Notable work: Portrait of a Venetian Family with a Manservant Serving Coffee
- Notable work: Presentation
- Notable work: The Family Concert
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