Francesco Battaglioli

He became a member of the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice in 1772, and he succeeded Antonio Visentini as professor of perspective in 1778.

Some of his veduta are of Aranjuez in Spain,[1] where he went to paint scenery sets for the Reales Coliseos theater held in the Palacio Real de Aranjuez for the delight of Ferdinand VI.

[2] Here he also worked with Farinelli in painting stage sets for Pietro Metastasio's operas.

From that series four of them are preserved at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (La Nitteti, Didone Abbandonata, Armida Placata Second Act, scene VII, and Knight fighting dragons in a forest),[3] another at the Prado (Armida Placata First Act, scene IV).

[4] Battaglioli's veduta were engraved by Francisco Zucchi and used to illustrate Baldassare Camillo Zamboni's Memorie intorno alle pubbliche fabbriche (1778).