- Pompeo Ghitti
Pompeo Ghitti (1631-1703 or 1704 ) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque period, active mainly in and in towns surroundingBrescia .He was born in the village of
Marone at the shores of lake Iseo, near Brescia. He was a pupil of the paintersOttavio Amigoni andAngelo Everardi , and then ofGiovanni Battista Discepoli . Ghitti contributed to the extensive fresco series in the Brescian church of "Santo Corpo di Cristo" or "del Corpus Domini", now called "Santo Cristo". He painted two altarpieces, the "Last Supper" (1681, 2nd chapel to left) and "Glory of St. Carlo Borromeo with the saints Stephen Martyr, Francis of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, & Rocco" (1668, 2nd chapel right) for the parrochial church of Santa Maria Assunta inGhedi [ [http://www.scamat.it/centenario/storia.htm| Santa Maria Assunta in Ghedi.] ] . He painted the main altarpiece with a "St. Carlo Borromeo praying to Virgin" with insertion of an image of the Trinity byPietro Scalvini for the church of the Confraternity of the SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini, now called the Teatro San Carlino in Brescia [ [http://www.provincia.brescia.it/cultura/cultura-teatrocarlino.php| Teatro San Carlino, Brescia.] ] . In the castle overlooking the town ofCazzago San Martino , in the "salone delle adunanze", the decoration includes landscapes by the painter Sorisene with figures by Pompeo Ghitti (1669). The counterfacade of the Brescian church of S. Maria in Calchera is painted by Ghitti, and depicts a miracle byBernardino da Feltre . Ghitti also painted a frescoes in the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli inGardone .Among his pupils were
Pietro Avogadro andGiovanni Antonio Capello .References
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