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Pannini

American  
[pahn-nee-nee] / pɑnˈni ni /

noun

  1. Giovanni (Paolo) 1692?–1765, Italian painter.


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Mr. Perenyi prices his reproductions, with their carefully aged frames, canvases and backings, from $2,500 for a small hummingbird that he signs with Heade’s name to $30,000 for a large Roman vista after Pannini.

From New York Times Jul. 18, 2012

Artists like Pannini and Piranesi specialized in composite views of ancient buildings, and these architectural fantasies, or capricci, enjoyed an immense vogue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week visitors to Detroit's Institute of Arts could see what Gibbon saw, as painted by his 18th Century contempo rary, Giovanni Paolo Pannini.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without Pannini, wrote art critic Herman Voss, "a branch of art which is charming in itself would have been deprived of real perfection."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes architectural compositions in the manner of Pannini, a favourite Roman painter of the day, were designed over the doors or flaps of secrétaires and cabinets, or busts, medallions, baskets of roses, &c.

From British Manufacturing Industries Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by Arnoux, L.

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