Giovanni Paolo Panini

In this they resemble the capricci of Marco Ricci. Panini also painted portraits, including one of Pope Benedict XIV.

Training under Giuseppe Natali, Andrea Galluzzi and Francesco Galli Bibiena is recorded. Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni is recorded as having studied under Giovanni Paolo Panini. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is painting. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape, history, architectural and portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Piacenza and Rome. Works named in the authority record are Modern Rome (series of 4), Ancient Rome (series of 4), Roman Capriccio: The Pantheon and Other Monuments and Interior of the Pantheon, Rome. Work by Giovanni Paolo Panini is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Museo del Prado, Art Institute of Chicago and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

As a young man, Panini trained in his native town of Piacenza, under Giuseppe Natali and Andrea Galluzzi, and with stage designer Francesco Galli-Bibiena. In 1711, he moved to Rome, where he studied drawing with Benedetto Luti. In 1724 he married Miss Gossert, sister-in-law of Wengkels, director of the French Academy in Rome, with whom he had two sons: Giuseppe Pannini (Rome, 1720-1812), the architect, and Francesco Panini (Rome, 1745 - 1812), the painter, who followed in his father's footsteps and manners. In Rome, Panini earned a name for himself as a decorator of palaces. Some of his works included the Villa Patrizi (1719–1725), the Palazzo de Carolis (1720), and the Seminario Romano (1721–1722). In 1719, Panini was admitted to the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon. He taught in Rome at the Accademia di San Luca and the Académie de France, where he is said to have influenced Jean-Honoré Fragonard. In 1754, he served as the prince (director) of the Accademia di San Luca. The Spanish monarchs appreciated his work in such a way that, commissioned by Filippo Juvarra, he sent paintings to decorate the Lacquer Room of the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso. In addition, King Carlos IV, when he was Prince, bought several of his works that are still preserved in the Prado Museum and in the royal palaces. Panini died in Rome on 21 October 1765.