Giovanni Paolo Panini

As a young man, Panini trained in his native town of Piacenza, under Giuseppe Natali and Andrea Galluzzi, and with stage designer Francesco Galli-Bibiena. In 1711, he moved to Rome, where he studied drawing with Benedetto Luti.

In Rome, Panini earned a name for himself as a decorator of palaces. Some of his works included the Villa Patrizi (1719–1725), the Palazzo de Carolis (1720), and the Seminario Romano (1721–1722). In 1719, Panini was admitted to the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. He taught in Rome at the Accademia di San Luca and the Académie de France, where he is said to have influenced Jean-Honoré Fragonard. In 1754, he served as the prince (director) of the Accademia di San Luca.

The Spanish monarchs appreciated his work in such a way that, commissioned by Filippo Juvarra, he sent paintings to decorate the Lacquer Room of the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso. In addition, King Carlos IV, when he was Prince, bought several of his works that are still preserved in the Prado Museum and in the royal palaces.[2]

Panini died in Rome on 21 October 1765.[1]

Panini's studio included Hubert Robert and his son Francesco Panini. His style influenced other vedutisti, such as his pupils Antonio Joli and Charles-Louis Clérisseau, as well as Canaletto and Bernardo Bellotto, who sought to meet the need of visitors for painted "postcards" depicting the Italian environs. Some British landscape painters, such as Marlow, Skelton and Wright of Derby, also imitated his capricci.

In addition to being a painter and architect, Panini was a professor of perspective and optics at the French Academy of Rome. His masterful use of perspective was later the inspiration for the creation of the "Panini Projection", which is instrumental in rendering panoramic views.

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  Interior of the Pantheon, Rome, c. 1734
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  Saint Paul Preaching in Athens, 1734, National Gallery of Art
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  Roman Capriccio: The Pantheon and Other Monuments (1735), Indianapolis Museum of Art
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  A Capriccio of the Roman Forum (1741)
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  Ancient Rome (1757), Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Modern Rome (1757), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  The Lottery at Palazzo Montecitorio, now in the National Gallery, London
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  St. Peter's Basilica, from the entrance
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  Adoration of the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi (1755), shown here at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City
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  View of the Colosseum (1747), at The Walters Art Museum
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  German soldiers in 1944 posing with a Pannini picture – Carlo III di Borbone che visita il papa Benedetto XIV nella coffee-house del Quirinale a Roma – at the time looted from the Naples Museum
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  A Concert Given by the duc de Nivernais to mark the Birth of the Dauphin, 1751 at Waddesdon Manor
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  Ruins of Ancient Rome
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  Christ casting the Money Changers out of the Temple. ca. 1725. Prado Museum, Madrid.[3]
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  The pool at Bethesda, (1724), at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.[4]

Death Leap of Marcus

• Arisi, Ferdinando (1986). Gian Paolo Panini e i fasti della Roma del '700 [Gian Paolo Panini and events in 18th c. Rome.] (in Italian). ISBN 88-7003-016-4.
• Arisi, Ferdinando,Giovanni Paolo Panini 1691-1765, Milano, 1993.
• Horak, Marco, Ritornato a Piacenza il dipinto di Panini passato all'asta lo scorso anno a Londra: si tratta dell' "opera prima", pendant di quello esposto alla Glauco Lombardi di Parma, in "Strenna Piacentina 2013", Piacenza, 2013.
• Horak, Marco, Quell'opera prima di Panini gemella del dipinto esposto al Lombardi di Parma, in "L'Urtiga - Quaderni di cultura Piacentina", Piacenza, n. 4, 2013.
• Horak, Marco, L'opera prima del Panini in una collezione privata, in "Panorama Musei", anno XVIII, n.3, dicembre 2013
• Horak, Marco, G.P. Panini al Fine Art Museum di San Francisco, in "Panorama Musei", anno XXI, n. 2, settembre 2016

• 68 paintings by or after Giovanni Paolo Panini at the Art UK site
• Media related to Giovanni Paolo Pannini at Wikimedia Commons
• Art and the empire city: New York, 1825-1861, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Panini (see index)
• Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution, a catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Panini (see index)
• Capriccio of Roman Ruins with Figures, from the Permanent Collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts
• Panini at Waddesdon Manor