Gaspare Maria Paoletti
Gaspare Maria Paoletti (1727-1813) was a Neoclassical sculptor and architect, active mainly in his native Florence, region of Tuscany, Italy.
Biography[]
Paoletti mainly worked for the Tuscan Grand-Dukes of the Hapsburg-Lorraine, and its successors. He became a professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. Among his works are the (1775), the White Hall (1776), and the Museum of La Specola, all attached to the Palazzo Pitti. He helped redecorate the Sala della Niobe in the Uffizi Gallery.[1] He worked extensively at the Villa di Poggio Imperiale (1776-1783), and a number of structures at Montecatini Terme (1780). For the latter, he designed the , , the Palazzina Reale, and the Locanda Maggiore.
Among his pupils were Giuseppe Manetti, , , and Pasquale Poccianti.
Note[]
- ^ C. Cresti, La Toscana dei Lorena. Politica del territorio e architettura, Cinisello Balsamo 1987, p. 146.
Bibliography[]
- Biography with some photos
- July 2014
- Paraphrased from Italian Wikipedia entry.
- 1727 births
- 1813 deaths
- 18th-century Italian architects
- 19th-century Italian architects
- Italian neoclassical architects
- Architects from Florence