Giovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765) was a painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the vedutisti (“view painters”). As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of Rome, in which he took a particular assimilation in the city’s antiquities. Among his most well-known works are his view of the interior of the Pantheon (on behalf of Francesco Algarotti), and his vedute—paintings of characterize galleries containing views of Rome. Most of his works, especially those of ruins, have a fanciful and unreal beautification characteristic of capriccio themes. In this they resemble the capricci of Marco Ricci. Panini as a consequence painted portraits, including one of Pope Benedict XIV.
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