Italian art historian and archaeologist (1732–1810)
Luigi Lanzi
Anonymous portrait of Lanzi from between 1775 and 1799
Born
(1732-06-13)13 June 1732
Treia, Papal States
Died
31 March 1810(1810-03-31) (aged 77)
Florence, French Empire
Burial place
Santa Croce, Florence
Occupation(s)
Art historian, archaeologist
Luigi Antonio Lanzi (13 June 1732 – 31 March 1810) was an Italian Jesuit priest, known for his writings as an art historian and archaeologist. When he died he was buried in the church of the Santa Croce at Florence by the side of Michelangelo.
Luigi Antonio Lanzi (13 June 1732 – 31 March 1810) was an Italian Jesuit priest, known for his writings as an art historian and archaeologist. When he...
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of the 16th century meaning it would have ended in 1525. By contrast, LuigiLanzi, in his History of Italian Painting, 1795–96, stated it ended with the...
known for altarpieces, and active in and near Como. According to Luigi Lanzi, he was putatively a pupil of Vincenzo Civerchio (c. 1470 – c. 1544). Circa...
frescoes depicting the Life of San Bernardino da Siena and a Crucifixion. LuigiLanzi describes him as varied, expressive, and judicious in composition; one...
noted by Filippo Baldinucci, none of his works could be identified by LuigiLanzi. Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.)...
Deposition (1738; and for Santo Stefano: a Miracle of San Zenobi (1745). LuigiLanzi describes him as a pupil of Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani or of Sagrestani's...
Camerino. He painted a Deposition now in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. LuigiLanzi describes him as an erudite, eclectic, wealthy and peripatetic, but not...
Kolokotronis (1825). He also made portraits of Francesco Algarotti and LuigiLanzi. Andreas Miaoulis by Boggi Francesco Bruni (2002). Niccolò Tommaseo....
(1654–1712) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period. LuigiLanzi erroneously refers to him as Giovanni Battista Draghi, who should not...
of Painting in Italy: The Florentine, Sienese, and Roman schools, by LuigiLanzi, page 201-202. "Vasari's ability as a painter cannot match his talents...
Antonio Giovanni. Annibale began his career in Siena, and was described by LuigiLanzi as a "fresco painter of rapid execution, but little merit". In 1697,...
different names, such as Jacobello or Jacometto del Fiore by the abbot LuigiLanzi. While he apparently trained in Venice, there are no identifiable works...
diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and volcanologist (d. 1803) 1732: LuigiLanzi, Italian archaeologist (d. 1810) 1735: August 8 - Jérémie Jacques Oberlin...
Antonio Danti[2], Antonio Tempesta, and Paolo Brill. Art Historian LuigiLanzi briefly takes note of him as an "inexhaustible painter of that age, though...
of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 137. Luigi, Lanzi (1847). Thomas Roscoe (ed.). The History of Painting in Italy; from period...
publishes the first account of El Tajín. 1789: Saggio di lingua Etrusca by LuigiLanzi. 1780: December 18 - The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland is formed...
active in Casale Monferrato in early 17th century. Alberino is cited by LuigiLanzi as training with Guglielmo Caccia (il Moncalvo), where he cites Della...
some frescoes for the church of San Martino in Pavia. He is quoted by LuigiLanzi as a contemporary of Laodicia di Pavia, and that both likely had Greek...
events. Saggio delle lingue Italia by LuigiLanzi Dei vasi antichi dipinti volgarmente chiamati Etruschi by LuigiLanzi September 18 – Hayman Rooke, British...
Pomarancio. Cesari is stigmatized by LuigiLanzi, as not less the corrupter of taste in painting than Marino was in poetry (Lanzi disdained the style of post-Michelangelo...
Garballi representing subjects emblematical of the Arts and Sciences. LuigiLanzi affirms that he excelled as an engraver. This article incorporates text...
Francesco Bassi. More important than his painting, he is claimed by LuigiLanzi to have discovered the method to transferring wood paintings to canvas...
Battista Velluti, castrated opera singer Massimo Ciocci, football player LuigiLanzi, antiquarian "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre...
humorous subjects (quadri di faceto argomento). She is mentioned by LuigiLanzi, but none of her works are found in the Pinacoteca of Modena. Ticozzi...
Gruter, Inscriptiones Antiquae Totius Orbis Romani, Heidelberg (1603). LuigiLanzi, Saggio di Lingua Etrusca, Rome (1789). Sigmund Wilhelm Zimmern, Geschichte...