Gezicht op de Engelenburcht te Rome
Gezicht op de Engelenburcht te Rome c1750~1800 by French Painter Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1723 – 1807); who specialized in creating scenes of architectural ruins and fantasy using a technique called Trompe-l’œil; an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted object exist in three dimensions.
Is álainn é seo landscape painting of the view of the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome; which is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, An Róimh, Italy on the northern bank of the Tiber river; which was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian (76 – 138 AD) as a mausoleum for himself and his family.
Is é atá i gceist leis seo ná sean-mháistrí ealaíne digití atáirgeadh ar íomhá fearainn phoiblí.
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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 ( rugadh é: Jean-Nicolas Servan 1695 – 1766), who was also a firework designer and trompe-l’œil specialist.
I 1755 the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture certified Pierre as a Painter of Architecture; agus i 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.
I 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).
I 1768 the Russian Ambassidor in Paris presented him with a commission for the creation of several tableaux from Catherine the Great; ansin isteach 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.
I 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.