Circle of Giambattista Pittoni, (Venice 1687-1776)
The Sacrifice of Polyxenia
Oil on canvas
58.9 x 78.4cm (23 3/16 x 30 7/8in
Private collection
Polyxena, in Greek mythology, a daughter of Priam, king of Troy, and his wife, Hecuba. After the fall of Troy, she was claimed by the ghost of Achilles, the greatest of the Greek warriors, as his share of the spoils and was therefore put to death at his tomb. In post-Classical times the story was elaborated; it was said that a peace had been arranged and Achilles was to marry Polyxena, but Paris treacherously shot him. More on Polyxena
Giambattista Pittoni or Giovanni Battista Pittoni (6
June 1687 - 6 November 1767) was a Venetian painter of the late
Baroque or Rococo period. He was among the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts
of Venice , of which in 1758 he became the second president, succeeding
Tiepolo.
Pittoni
studied under his uncle Francesco Pittoni, a well-known but undistinguished
painter of the Venetian Baroque.
Pittoni joined the Fraglia of the Venetian Painters, the
Venetian guild of painters, in 1716. From, probably, the same year until his
death he was a member of the College of Painters, of which he became prior in
1729. He was elected to the Clementine Academy of Bologna in 1727. In
1750 he was one of the forty-six members of the Veneta Publish Academy of
Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, which later became the Academy of Fine
Arts of Venice ; from 1758 to 1760 he succeeded Tiepoloas president of the
academy, and was elected for a second term in 1763–64. More
on Giambattista Pittoni
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