Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was an Italian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector...

Italian composer Francesco Zuccarelli (1702–1788), Italian painter Francesco Zahra (1710–1773), Maltese painter Francesco Algarotti (1712–1764), Italian...

Venetian philosopher Francesco Algarotti, and they were both infatuated. Frederick planned to make him a count. Challenged by Algarotti that northern Europeans...

works are his view of the interior of the Pantheon (on behalf of Francesco Algarotti), and his vedute—paintings of picture galleries containing views...

response to English influences. In Prussia the critic and courtier Francesco Algarotti corresponded with Burlington about his efforts to persuade Frederick...

Neva River, he founded Saint Petersburg, a city famously dubbed by Francesco Algarotti as the "window to the West". In 1714, Peter relocated the capital...

Count Francesco Algarotti, who competed with an equally smitten John Hervey for her affections. Lady Mary wrote many letters to Francesco Algarotti in English...

Other intellectuals attracted to the philosopher's kingdom were Francesco Algarotti, d'Argens, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Contrary to his father's...

classed The Chocolate Girl as his masterpiece. On 3 February 1745 Francesco Algarotti purchased the drawing directly from Liotard in Venice. In an unknown...

Augustus III, Elector of Saxony, by his agent Francesco Algarotti. According to a letter of 1744 from Algarotti to Heinrich von Brühl (1700–1763), the Saxon...