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'Peace and War' Pompeo Girolamo Batoni Italian (1708-1787) Oil on canvas circa 1767
Pompeo Girolam Batoni ( 1708-1787) was regarded in his maturity as Rome's greatest living painter, perhaps even the most famous in Europe. Bartoni gained such stature through numerous grand portraits and prestigious commissions for religious and historical subjects from popes emperors and kings . Yet he painted 'Peace and War' without a commission , during a rare interval of peace in Europe.
A contemporary called this picture one of the most beautiful Batoni ever made , a judgement repeated in the artists obituary. Batoni earned such praise by combining elements of Rococo softness and eroticism with those of the newly fashionable neoclassicism .
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