Gioacchino Pizzoli

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Gioacchino Pizzoli (Bologna, 1651- 1733) was an Italian painter, active as a history and figure painter during the Baroque period.

Biography[]

He was trained in Bologna, and married the painter (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 ) with frescoes on the History of Croatia and Hungary. [4]

References[]

  1. ^ Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico ... By Giuseppe Campori, pages 378.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Santa Maria del Borgo Oratory frescoes by Fondazione Federico Zeri.
  4. ^ Historical archive of University of Bologna, entry on photographs of Collegio Artistico Venturoli.
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