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According to historian Girolamo Tiraboschi, Antonio Joli was a disciple of perspective painter Raffaelo Menia Rinaldi in Modena and later, in Rome, of Giovanni Paolo Panini, a painter of idealized landscapes with classical ruins whose influence on Joli's style was decisive. In 1732, Joli began his career painting theater sets in Venice, one of the most important centers for Italian opera at that t