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Longhi, Pietro

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Longhi, Pietro (Falca) (1702–1785)

Italian painter. He specialized in genre scenes recording fashionable Venetian life and amusements, as in The Exhibition of a Rhinoceros at Venice 1751 (National Gallery, London).

His son Alessandro Longhi (1733–1815) was a portrait painter and engraver (reproducing some of his father's genre scenes). In 1762 he published a biographical account of contemporary Venetian painters, with his own portrait engravings.



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