Vue du Castel Sant'Angelo à Rome
Vue du Castel Sant'Angelo à Rome c1750~1800 par le peintre français Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1723 – 1807); qui s'est spécialisé dans la création de scènes de ruines architecturales et de fantaisie en utilisant une technique appelée Trompe-l'œil; an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted object exist in three dimensions.
C'est une belle peinture de paysage of the view of the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome; which is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy on the northern bank of the Tiber river; which was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian (76 – 138 UN D) as a mausoleum for himself and his family.
Il s'agit d'une reproduction de maîtres anciens d'art numérique retouchée d'une image du domaine public.
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Pierre was born to a carpenter in 1723, in Paris France and by the age of 31 had become a student of the Italian Scenographer, Decorator and Architect Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni ( née: Jean-Nicolas Servan 1695 – 1766), who was also a firework designer and trompe-l’œil specialist.
Dans 1755 the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture certified Pierre as a Painter of Architecture; et en 1757 he held his first exhibit at the Salon (Paris Salon est. 1677), and continued to show his works there until 1802; soon afterwards he began teaching at the Académie.
Dans 1764 his Trompe-l’œil paintings for the façade of the new Church of Sainte-Geneviève (now the Panthéon), earned him an appointment as the decorator of stage sets for the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi ( was, in the organization of the French royal household under the Ancien Régime).
Dans 1768 the Russian Ambassidor in Paris presented him with a commission for the creation of several tableaux from Catherine the Great; puis dans 1769 upon the death of French Painter Jean-François Amand (1730 – 1769), Pierre was assigned to oversee his workshop in the Palais du Louvre.
His classes were so popular with art students, that in 1777 the Comte d’Angiviller, Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billarderie (1730 – 1803), wrote a letter to Académie’s Director, Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre (1714 – 1789), complaining that Demachy’s students were “polluting the corridors” of the Louvre.
Dans 1785 Pierre applied for and received the position of Professor of Perspective, that had been recently vacated due to the death of French Painter Jacques Sébastien Leclerc (1734 – 1785); and would hold that office with some interruptions until his death in 1807.