Paolo Maria Antoniani Biography
Paolo Maria Antoniani was born in Milan in 1735,
Painter, belonging to an important family of landscape painters active in Turin in the second half of the eighteenth century. He specialized above all in landscapes and seascapes, which he created for the palaces of the Piedmontese nobility. He was active in Stupinigi, Moncalieri and at the Royal Palace of Turin, where he worked on the creation of overdoors and decorations for carriages.
His works are characterized by large fields of color and lively, elongated figurines, outlined with a rapid, darting technique and very bright colours.
His canvases often depict seascapes, coasts, fishermen in boats, vessels in the distance.
Antoniani inherited his father's landscape schemes, but made them particularly pleasant thanks to notable scenographic skill and a rich and varied range of colours.
In his canvases we can see the influence of the painting of Claude Lorraine, Adrien Manglard and Joseph Vernet, all artists known to Antoniani through direct knowledge of their paintings preserved in local collections or through engravings.
The work of Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli also influences his painting, think of the compositional choice, the brightness and the choreographic grace of the groups of figures.
He died in 1807 in Turin.
