Misplaced Pages

Pio Panfili (May 5, 1723 – 17 June 1812) was an Italian painter and engraver.

Biography

He was born in Porto San Giorgio in the province of Fermo. He trained with Antiveduto Grammatica, Natale Ricci in Fermo, and finally in the Accademia Clementina of Bologna, and was awarded Bolognese citizenship. After painting throughout the region, he moved to Bologna in 1767. He died in 1812 in Bologna. He painted the ceiling of the staircase of the monastery of the Padri Conventuali of Montegiorgio and the refectory of the Augustinians in Rimini. Also painted for palaces, including the Palazzo Priorale, and the ceiling of the cathedral of Fermo.

He published Vedute di Bologna with 52 engravings by himself and published by Petronio Dalla Volpe.

References

1. Memorie storiche delle arti e degli artisti della marca di Ancona, Volume 1, by Amico Ricci (march.) Page 367-369
2. Coddè, Segretario dell Belle Arti in Mantova, Dottore Pasquale (1837). Augmented by Dottore Fisico, Luigi Coddè (ed.). Memorie Biografiche, poste in forma di Dizionario die Pittori, Scultori, Architetti, ed Incisori Mantovani. Mantua: Presso i Fratelli Negretti. pp. 97–98.
3. Monograph on painters of Marche.
4. Altoreno Books, edition of Panfili vedute.

This article about an Italian painter born in the 18th century is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• 1723 births
• 1812 deaths
• 18th-century Italian painters
• Italian male painters
• 19th-century Italian painters
• Italian neoclassical painters
• 19th-century Italian male artists
• 18th-century Italian male artists
• People from Porto San Giorgio
• Italian painter, 18th-century birth stubs