El pintor   PANNINI, Giovanni Paolo Italian painter, Roman school (b. 1691, Piacenza, d. 1765, Roma) Biography Giovanni Paolo Pannini (or Panini), Italian painter. He was the first painter to specialize in ruins, treating them as Roman 'vedute' of a special kind. He was working in Rome by c. 1717, but the earliest surviving dated picture is of 1727 (London, Wellington Museum); in 1729 he was concerned in a Fête given by Cardinal de Polignac in honour of the birth of the Dauphin and this began a long connection with France and the French Academy in Rome. Paintings of the Fête are in the Louvre (1729) and Dublin (1731). His views of modern Rome, as well as his capricci based on the better-known ruins, had an enormous vogue among Grand Tourists and examples are to be found in most older galleries. Piranesi, though far more of an archaeologist, was influenced by him, and so was Canaletto.       La pinacoteca

Picture Gallery with Views of Modern Rome 1757 Oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston		Interior of the Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome c. 1730 Oil on canvas, 78 x 90 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg		Interior of the San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome Oil on canvas, 74 x 100 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow
The Piazza and Church of Santa Maria Maggiore 1744 Oil on canvas Palazzo Quirinale, Rom		Musical Fête 1747 Oil on canvas, 207 x 247 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris		Apostle Paul Preaching on the Ruins 1744 Oil on canvas, 64 x 83,5 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
		Roma Antica c. 1755 Oil on canvas, 186 x 227 cam Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart