Giovanni Paolo Panini St. Peter's Basilica Analysis

The artist I chose to do my paper on is Giovanni Paolo Panini and the name of the work is Interior of St. Peter’s, Rome by Gionanni Paolo Panini. This work is about the interior of the church called St. Peter’s Basilica and it was created in 1731 in Rome, Italy, Europe. This piece of work is a view painting of the interior of St’ Peter’s Basilica and since it is a church it is a religious and symbolic example of the piousness of the people of these times.
Giovanni Paolo Pannini was born in 1691 in Piacenza, Italy, eventually Pannini moved to Rome, Italy where he lived the rest of his life until his death in 1765. In Pannini’s younger years he was aiming to have a career in the church and in this process he had learned about art and architecture and had a good understanding of it by the time he had gotten to Rome in 1711 where he continued his artistic training under Benedetto Luti. While in Rome he became influenced by the works of Giovanni Ghisolfi, Jan Frans van Bloemen, and Andrea Locatelli. While making a name for himself Pannini was nominated to the Accademia di San Luca, which was a school in Rome that was meant to take a good artist to the next level, in 1719 where he was a teacher. Another feat that was done …show more content…
Peter’s Basilica, I believe, wasn’t intended to inform us of anything since it was commissioned by someone to be done. However, just by looking at the work gives you an idea of the architectural designs, the art that is within the building, and Pannini does a good job at capturing the magnificence of the church. Other pieces of art that Pannini is known for are his Interior of the Pathenon, Rome which is an oil on canvas piece that uses a manipulation of perspective to give a larger view of the interior. One of his other masterful pieces is called Modern Rome which is another oil on canvas painting that depicts all of Rome’s most famous monuments and it also has Pannini himself sitting in a chair within the