PIETRO See also:

• PIETRO LONGHI (1702-1762)

LONGHI (1702-1762)  , Venetian painter, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• VENICE
• VENICE (continued)
• VENICE (Venezia)

Venice . He was a See also:

• PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

• ANTONIO
• ANTONIO (1429—1498)
• ANTONIO, NICOLAS (1617-1684)

Antonio Palestra and Giuseppe Maria See also:

• CRESPI, DANIELE (1590-1630)
• CRESPI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1557-1663)
• CRESPI, GIUSEPPE MARIA (166 1747)

Crespi at See also:

• BOLOGNA
• BOLOGNA, GIOVANNI DA (1524–1608)

Bologna, and devoted himself to the See also:

• PAINTING

painting of the elegance of the social See also:

• LIFE

life in 18th-See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century Venice . The See also:

• REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic was dying fast, but her sons, even in this See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of See also:

• POLITICAL

political decline, retained their love of pageants and ceremonies and of extravagant splendour in attire . The See also:

• ART

art of Venice was vanishing like her political See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power; and the only painters who attempted to See also:

• STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem the See also:

• TIDE (O. Eng. lid, cf. Ger. Zeit, time or season, connected with root of Sanskrit a-diti, endless)

tide of See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic decadence were the Canaletti, See also:

• GUARDI, FRANCESCO (1712-1793)

Guardi, See also:

• TIEPOLO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1692-1769)

Tiepolo and See also:

• LONGHI, PIETRO (1702-1762)

Longhi . But whilst the Canaletti and Guardi dwelt upon the architectural glories of Venice, and Tiepolo applied himself to decorative schemes in which he continued the tradition of See also:

• PAOLO (GIROLAMO GASPARE)5 (1532-1600)

Paolo Veronese and See also:

• TINTORETTO, JACOPO ROBUSTI (1518-1594)

Tintoretto, Longhi became the chronicler of the life of his compatriots . In a way his art may be set beside See also:

• HOGARTH, WILLIAM (1697–1764)

Hogarth's, though the Venetian did not See also:

• PLAY

play the See also:

• PART

part of a satirical moralist . He has aptly been called the See also:

• GOLDONI, CARLO (1707-1793)

Goldoni of painting . His See also:

• SPHERE (Gr. vclsa?pa, a ball or globe)

sphere is that of See also:

• LIGHT

light social See also:

• COMEDY

comedy—the life at the cafe, the hairdresser's, at the dancing-school, at the dressmaker's . The tragic, or even the serious, See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note is hardly sounded in his See also:

• WORK

work,which,in its See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour,is generally distinguished by a See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich mellow quality of See also:

• TONE, THEOBALD WOLFE (1763-1798)

tone . Most of his paintings are in the public and private collections of Venice . They are generally on a small See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale, but the See also:

• STAIRCASE

staircase of the Palazzo Grassi in Venice is decorated by him with seven frescoes, representing scenes of fashionable life . At the Venice See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

academy are a number of his genre pictures and a portrait of the architect Temanza; at the Palazzo Quirini-Stampalia the portrait of Daniele Dolfino, " The Seven Sacraments " (etched by Pitteri), a " Temptation of St See also:

• ANTHONY, SAINT
• ANTHONY, SUSAN BROWNELL (1820-1906)

Anthony," a " See also:

• CIRCUS (Lat. circus, Gr. Kipeos or Kptxot, a ring or' circle; probably " circus " and " ring " are of the same origin)

Circus," a " Gambling See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

Scene," and several other genre pictures and portraits; at the Museo Correr a dozen scenes of Venetian life and a portrait of Goldoni .

In See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England the See also:

• NATIONAL

National See also:

• GALLERY (through Ital. galleria, from Med. Lat. galeria, of which the origin is unknown)

Gallery owns " The See also:

• EXHIBITION

Exhibition of a See also:

• RHINOCEROS

Rhinoceros in an See also:

• ARENA (Lat. for " sand ")

Arena," a " Domestic See also:

• GROUP

Group," " The See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

Fortune-See also:

• TELLER, WILHELM ABRAHAM (1734-1804)

Teller," and the portrait of the See also:

• CHEVALIER, ALBERT (1861– )
• CHEVALIER, MICHEL (1806-1879)
• CHEVALIER, ULYSSE (1841– )

Chevalier See also:

• ANDREA, GIOVANNI (1275-1348)

Andrea Tron; two genre pictures are at See also:

• HAMPTON
• HAMPTON, WADE (1818-1902)

Hampton See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

Court See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

Palace, and others in the See also:

• RICHTER, ADRIAN LUDWIG (1803-1884)
• RICHTER, ERNST FRIEDRICH EDUARD (1808–1879)
• RICHTER, EUGEN (1839–1906)
• RICHTER, HANS (1843– )
• RICHTER, JEREMIAS BENJAMIN (1762–1807)
• RICHTER, JOHANN PAUL FRIEDRICH (1763–1825)

Richter and See also:

• MOND, LUDWIG (1839-1909)

Mond collections . Many of his See also:

• WORKS

works have been engraved by Alessandro Longhi, See also:

• BARTOLOZZI, FRANCESCO (1725-1815)

Bartolozzi, Cattini, Faldoni and others . Longhi died in Venice in 1762 .