Antonio Joli (1700-1777)

• Was an Italian painter of vedute and capricci.
• Born in Modena, he first was apprenticed to Rafaello Rinaldi.
• He then studied in Rome under Giovanni Paolo Panini, and in the studios of the Galli da Bibbiena family of scene-painters.
• He became a painter of stage sets in Modena and Perugia.
• In 1732 he moved to Venice, where he worked as stage-painter for opera productions at the Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo and the Teatro San Samuele of the Grimani family.
• In 1742 he went to Dresden, and then to London (1744–48) and Madrid (1750–54).
• In London, he decorated the Richmond mansion of John James Heidegger, then the director of the King's Theatre in the Haymarket.
• Joli returned to Venice in 1754, where he became one of the 36 founding members of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
• He moved to the Bourbon court of Naples in 1761, and died there on 29 April 1777.
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