Giuseppe Pannini

Not much is known of his career, but Giuseppe Panini is recognised as the architect having completed, in 1762, the construction of the Trevi Fountain after the death of Nicola Salvi, who made the initial design.

[10][11]Earlier, Pope Benedict XIV, born Prospero Lambertini, had commissioned Pannini to realise the church Sant'Isidore alla Terme (1754–1755), on the edge of the Baths of Diocletian in Rome.

[15] During the extensive restoration and transformation works by Duke Sforza-Cesarini[16] between 1781 and 1794, Pannini realised a decorative cycle with architectural perspectives using trompe l'œil techniques in the interior of the Palazzo Sforza Cesarini in Rome,[17] originally built in 1458 as the seat of the Apostolic Chancellery by Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia,[18] later renamed the Cancelleria Vecchia.

[5] In the octagonal hall of the ancient Roman Baths of Ocriculum, a giant marble head of Jupiter, the Giove di Otricoli (1st C. BC), was unearthed under the direction of Giuseppe Pannini and Vincenzo Cecchi, around 1781–1782, which can now be seen in the Sala Rotonda in the Museo Pio Clementino.

[26] Maria Celeste Cola mentions that Giuseppe Pannini was commissioned in 1779 to reproduce the monumental octagonal floor mosaic (3rd C. A.D.) showing a fight between the Lapiths and centaurs and marine thiasos, also unearthed in Otricoli, now displayed in that same room at the Vatican Museums (inv.