Pietro Antonio Rotari

Place: Verona

Born: 1707

Death: 1762

Biography:

Pietro Antonio Rotari (30 September 1707 – 31 August 1762) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Verona, he led a peripatetic career, and died in Saint Petersburg, where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court. His portraits of mostly women are quite famous, and very beautiful and realistic. But his art consisted of mainly ro...