Giuseppe Bezzuoli

Giuseppe Bezzuoli (28 November, 1784-13 September, 1855) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, active in Milan, Rome, and his native city of Florence.

He was a candidate to the professorship of painting at the Florence Academy after Pietro Benvenuti's death. He studied as a young man under Des Marais at Florence, and afterward spent some time at Rome between 1813 and 1820. His large picture in the Academy include the "Entry of Charles VIII into Florence" (1822-1829), production. Some of his smaller works, such as the Galatea and the small copy of Raphael's School of Athens (1819), in the Galleria Tosio Martinengo at Brescia, give a more favorable idea of his talent. He decorated a small Tribune of Galileo at the Natural History Museum at Florence, and the more important series of scenes from the life of Ceasar (1836) in one of the rooms on the ground floor of the Pitti Palace. Among his pupils were Giovanni Fattori, Enrico Pollastrini, and Silvestro Lega

His principal works include a "Baptism of Clovis", "Madonna" in fresco for the Pitti Palace, and "The Entry of Charles VIII into Florence". He painted two ceilings for the Borghese Palace at Rome representing "Toilet of Venus", and "Venus carrying Ascanius". He died in Florence.

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