Pietro Antonio Rotari (September
1707 – August 1762) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in
Verona, he led a peripatetic career, and died in St Petersburg, where he had
traveled to paint for the Russian court. He was much in demand as a
portraitist, and painted royal families in Dresden and Saint Petersburg. He
also painted the multi-figured altarpieces of the Four Martyrs (1745) for the
church of the Ospedale di San Giacomo in Verona. He also painted an altarpiece
of San Giorgio tempted to sacricifice to the idols (1743) for the church of the
same name in Reggio-Emilia, and an Annunciation (1738) for the main altar for
the church of the Annunziata in Guastalla