Pier Leone Ghezzi

Pier Leone Ghezzi
Pier Leone Ghezzi, Public domain

(1674–1755) Italian painter (1674-1755)

Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674–1755) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, Pier Leone Ghezzi belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.

Pier Leone Ghezzi was born in Rome and died in Rome. Pier Leone Ghezzi worked in Rome and Florence.

One of the best-known works is ‘Maria Clementina Sobieska’. The catalogue has 36 works by Pier Leone Ghezzi with free images. The dated works span the years 1650–1750. Works by Pier Leone Ghezzi are held by several collections, among them Nationalmuseum, Vatican Library, drawings in the National Gallery of Art, and Accademia di San Luca. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Claude Gillot, Bernard Picart, Adám Mányoki, Maria Moninckx, and Henrietta Johnston.