Paolo Anesi

Landscape of Rome with the Ponte Sisto by Paolo Anesi

Paolo Anesi (1697 – 1773) was an Italian painter of the 18th century, active mainly in painting capriccios and landscapes (vedute) in the style of Giovanni Paolo Pannini.^[1] Born in Florence, he trained with Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, and his pupils included Francesco Zuccarelli and Paolo Monaldi. His Views of Rome series contained both The Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine.

References

1. Paintings in British collections.

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum, ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 7.