Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole
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Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole(10 December 1654 – 22 July 1719) was anItalianpainter and engraver fromBologna,active in the late-Baroqueperiod. Upon the death ofCarlo Cignani,Gioseffo dal Sole became among the most prominent painters in Bologna, described as theGuidoModerno.[1]
Biography
[edit]His father, Giovanni Antonio Maria, also calledMochino de` Paesidue to his ambidextrous dexterity, was a landscape painter who trained withFrancesco Albani.[2]Giovanni Gioseffo first apprenticed withDomenico Maria Canuti,and then in 1672; he entered the Roman studio ofLorenzo Pasinelli.He painted frescoes in the cupola ofSanta Maria dei Poveriin Bologna,[3]and an altarpiece of theTrinity(1700) for theChiesa del SuffragioinImola.He is said to have collaborated withGiuseppe Maria Crespi.
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He was one of the painters who contributed a canvas depicting the mythologic scene ofAndromache weeping before Aeneasfor the renownedAenid Galleryof thePalazzo BuonaccorsiinMacerata;a decoration that employed many of the premier contemporary artists: with frescoes byRambaldi,Dardani,andSolimena;and canvases byGarzi,Gambarini,Balestra,Lazzarini,andFranceschini.
Two paintings by Dal Sole,Diana with cupidsandEcstasy of the Magdalenare found in thePalazzo Spalletti-Trivelliin Bologna. There is aSalome with the St John the Baptistin the Fitzwilliam Museum attributed to Giovanni Gioseffo. He also frescoed the Palazzo Mansi inLuccawith aJudgement of Paris.
Among his many pupils wereFelice Torelli,Lucia Casalini(Torelli's wife),[4]Antonio Beduzzi,Francesco Monti (Bologna),Bastiano Galleoti,[5]Gioseffo Vitali,Donato Creti,Giovanni Battista Grati(Batistino Grati), of Bologna[6]Gioseffo[7]andCesare Mazzoni,Bernardino Norsini,[8]Giacomo Pavia,[9]Antonio Lunghi,[10]Carlo Salis,[11]Francesco Pavona,Dionigi Donnini(Girolamo Donini),[12]Francesco Comi(il Fornaretto), and Jacopo Saeta.[13]He also played some role as a mentor to a pupil of Pasinelli and Sirani (though unclear father or daughterElisabetta),Teresa Muratori Scannabecchi,[14]and his Giovanni Gioseffo's granddaughter Francesca Fantoni.[15]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Scrase, David (1992). "Giovan Gioseffo dal Sole".The Burlington Magazine.pp. 257–258.
- Artnet biography from Grove encyclopedia of Art
- ^Biblioteca enciclopedica italiana,Volume 14, by Nicolo Bettoni; Milan (1831); page 133.
- ^Dizionario biografico universale,Volume 5, by Felice Scifoni, Publisher Davide Passagli, Florence (1849); page 122.
- ^In 2016, church stands nearly a complete ruin.
- ^Orlandi, Pellegrino Antonio; Guarienti, Pietro (1719),Abecedario pittorico,Naples, p. 303
- ^Orlandi, page 85.
- ^Orlandi, page 86.
- ^Orlandi, page 199.
- ^Boni, Filippo de' (1840).Biografia degli Artisti, Emporeo biografico metodico, volume 10.Venice: Co' Tipi di Gondolieri. p. 711.
- ^Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine al 1796,by Salvatore Muzzi; Bologna, 1846, Volume 8, page 743.
- ^Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine al 1796,compiled by Salvatore Muzzi; Tipi de S. Tommaso d'Aquino, Bologna (1846): Volume 8, page 741.
- ^Orlandi, page 106.
- ^Orlandi, page 258.
- ^Della origine e delle vicende della pittura in Padova,by Giannantonio Moschini, Tipografia Crescini, Padua (1826), page 107.
- ^Luigi, Lanzi(1847).Thomas Roscoe(ed.).The History of Painting in Italy; from the period of the revival of the arts to the eighteenth century.London: Henry G. Bohn.
- ^Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli (ed.).Dizionario biografico universale.Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p.663.
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