Pietro BENVENUTI
Publications
L. FORNASARI, Pietro Benvenuti: dipinti, copie e carteggi, in “Atti e Memorie dell’Accademia Petrarca di Lettere, Arti e Scienza”, LXIII LXIV, 2001-2002, pp. 345-346, fig. 31.
L. FORNASARI, Pietro Benvenuti, Firenze 2004, pp. 320-321, note 45.
The drawing, representing Venus bended on her knees begging her father Jupiter, is related to the series of studies for the decoration of the “Hercules Room” in palazzo Pitti in Florence. Pietro Benvenuti was hired at first by Elisa Baciocchi Bonaparte in 1811 and, after the fall of her brother Napoleon, he was reconfirmed in 1817 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand III of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine; the works lasted for more than a decade, until 1829.
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