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Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) (1701-1785)

• Was a Venetian painter.
• Pietro Longhi was born in Venice in the parish of Saint Maria.
• Pietro was the first child of the silversmith Alessandro Falca and his wife, Antonia.
• He adopted the Longhi last name when he began to paint.
• He was initially taught by the Veronese painter Antonio Balestra.
• Balestra then recommended the young painter to apprentice with the Bolognese Giuseppe Maria Crespi.
• In numerous paintings, Longhi depicts masked figures engaging in various acts from gambling to flirting.
• From 1763 Longhi was Director of the Academy of Drawing and Carving.
• From this period, he began to work extensively with portraiture, and was actively assisted by his son, Alessandro. • The painting displayed is a crop from: Pietro Longhi, A Fortune Teller at Venice, about 1756.
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