Name Pietro Martini | Died 1797, Parma, Italy | |
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Pietro Antonio Martini (1738–1797) was an Italian painter and engraver, active in a late Baroque style.
Biography
Born at Trecasali, he went to Paris to learn engraving working with Jacques-Philippe Le Bas. He also worked in London. He died in Parma.
One of the subjects of his etchings was views of late 18th-century art exhibitions themselves. For example, one etching depicts the 1785 Salon exhibition at the Louvre; another engraving depicts a View of the Salon of 1785; and a third, the Exhibition of the Royal Academy in 1787. These engravings are historically instructive in demonstrating the crowded stacked displays of artworks utilized in this period. Other etchings indicated that the admiring crowds may have been a stock image for use in other similar engravings.
Among his etchings are the following: