- Giuseppe Bonati
Giuseppe Bonati (
1635 -March 12 ,1681 ) was an Italian painter of theBaroque period, active inRome andFerrara .He is also known as "Giovannino del Pio" or "Giovanni Bonatti". He initially trained as a pupil of
Francesco Costanzo Cattaneo andLeonello Bononi . Under the patronage of cardinal Carlo Pio, in 1658 he was sent toBologna to train withGuercino . In 1662, he travels to Rome to work in the studio ofPier Francesco Mola . Bonati attempts to establish a studio to rivalCarlo Maratta . Along with his patrons, he traveled through Italy, includingVenice , returning in 1665 to Rome where he worked in many churches, includingSanta Croce in Gerusalemme andSanta Maria in Vallicella . In the Museo Capitolino are paintings of "Rinaldo and Armida" as well as "Sisera and Jael". He painted forQueen Christina of Sweden .References
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*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume I: A-K)| editor = Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 151| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1| authorlink=* [http://www2.comune.roma.it/museicapitolini/pinacoteca/indice_autori.htm| Dates.]
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