LOMBARDI, Giovanni Domenico

(b. 1682 Lucca, d. 1751 Lucca)

Italian painter in Lucca. He studied first with Giovanni Marracci (1637-1704) in Lucca, and then was in Lombardy and later in Venice. He returned to Lucca in 1706 and married Maria Caterina Domenici. They had four children.

In 1707 he completed his first fresco, The Assumption of the Virgin, in the apse of the church of Gallicano, in the Lucca area. His first commissions of great importance were frescoes for a chapel in San Romano, Lucca, in 1714. He continued the local tradition of Pietro Paolini and executed many frescoes in the churches in Lucca, and worked also in Rome. He worked for the aristocracy in Lucca.

Lombardi was much appreciated in the nineteenth century, his significance, however, was later declined.

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Giovanni Domenico Lombardi was a painter in Lucca who continued the local tradition of Pietro Paolini. He was much appreciated in the nineteenth century, his significance, however, was later declined.

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Interior of a Palace with Elegant Figures

This painting shows the interior of a palace with several scenes from the everyday lives of the nobility of eighteenth century Lucca. In the left foreground we can see a family group, the paterfamilias surrounded by his wife and children, their music teacher and two priests. These are likely to be portraits. The remainder of the salon is filled with small groups engaged in the kind of activities one might expect to find in an elegant Lucchese palace. The various scenes recall the work of the Venetian genre painter, Pietro Longhi.

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