Pietro Anderlini

Illusionistic perspective behind the organ by Pietro Anderlini, San Giuseppe (Florence)

Pietro Anderlini, also Andorlini, (1687 - 1755) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period.

Biography

He was born and died in Florence. Anderlini was a pupil of Giuseppe Tonelli, and his first documented work was the fresco of the Convent of San Lorenzo in Florence in 1718. He worked alongside, and on behalf, of some of the main Florentine painters of the 1700s.

The quadratura fresco style that he painted in was widely used by contemporary painters to embellish with designs of their own works architectures, the most famous of these painters were Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

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