Francesco Algarotti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Francesco Algarotti

Italian philosopher

Date of Birth: 11-Dec-1712

Place of Birth: Venice, Venetian Province, Italy

Date of Death: 03-May-1764

Profession: writer, poet, physicist, mathematician, chamberlain, art historian, art critic, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Count Francesco Algarotti (11 December 1712 – 3 May 1764) was a Venetian polymath, philosopher, poet, essayist, anglophile, art critic and art collector.
He was a man of broad knowledge, an expert in Newtonianism, architecture and music and a friend of most of the leading authors of his times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie.
Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Gray, George Lyttelton, Thomas Hollis, Metastasio, Benedict XIV and Heinrich von Brühl were among his correspondents.



Alternative names	Jean-Etienne Liotard, Turkish painter
Description	Genevan painter, pastellist, printmaker and miniaturist
Date of birth/death	22 December 1702	12 June 1789
Location of birth/death	Geneva	Geneva
Work location	Geneva, Paris, Italy, Vienna, France, Constantinople, today Istanbul (1738-1742), England, Amsterdam (1756), Paris (1757), The Hague (1771-....), London (1772-....)
Authority control	: Q123757 VIAF: 61675695 ISNI: 0000 0001 2135 8288 ULAN: 500003329 LCCN: n50051951 NLA: 35307687 WorldCat