Gioacchino Pizzoli
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Gioacchino Pizzoli (1651 in Bologna – 1733) was an Italian painter, active as a history and figure painter during the Baroque period.
Biography[edit]
He was trained in Bologna, and married the painter Maria Oriana Galli da Bibbiena (1656–1749), daughter of Giovanni Maria of the Galli da Bibiena family. Their son, Domenico Pizzoli (1687-1720) was also a painter. A daughter joined a monastery in Reggio-Emilia.[1]
In 1675-1677 along with his master, the quadratura painter Angelo Michele Colonna, the Sala del Consiglio Comunale (once Gallery of the Senate) of the Palazzo D'Accursio.[2] He also helped fresco the Oratory of Santa Maria del Borgo in Bologna.[3] Also in 1700, in Bologna, Pizzoli frescoed the then Collegio Ungaro-Illirici (now Collegio Venturoli) with frescoes on the History of Croatia and Hungary.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico ... By Giuseppe Campori, pages 378.
- ^ Frescoes in Sala del Consiglio Comunale Archived 2013-05-25 at the Wayback Machine, Bologna, in site from municipality, text by Carla Bernardini and Gilberta Franzoni.
- ^ Santa Maria del Borgo Oratory frescoes by Fondazione Federico Zeri.
- ^ Historical archive of University of Bologna, entry on photographs of Collegio Artistico Venturoli.
Reading[edit]
- Ingrid Sjöström, Quadratura. Studies in Italian Ceiling Paintings, Stockholm, Almqvist och Wiksell, 1978. (ISBN 912200176-X)
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