Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole
Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (10 December 1654 – 22 July 1719) was an Italian painter and engraver from Bologna, active in the late-Baroque period. Upon the death of Carlo Cignani, Gioseffo dal Sole became among the most prominent painters in Bologna, described as the Guido Moderno.[1]
Biography
His father, Giovanni Antonio Maria, was a landscape painter who trained with Francesco Albani. Giovanni Gioseffo first apprenticed with Domenico Maria Canuti, and then in 1672; he entered the Roman studio of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He painted frescoes in the cupola of Santa Maria dei Poveri in Bologna,[2] and an altarpiece of the Trinity (1700) for the Chiesa del Suffragio in Imola. He is said to have collaborated with Giuseppe Maria Crespi.
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He was one of the painters who contributed a canvas depicting the mythologic scene of Andromache weeping before Aeneas for the renowned Aenid Gallery of the Palazzo Buonaccorsi in Macerata; a decoration that employed many of the premier contemporary artists: with frescoes by Rambaldi, Dardani, and Solimena; and canvases by Garzi, Gambarini, Balestra, Lazzarini, and Franceschini.
Two paintings by Dal Sole, Diana with cupids and Ecstasy of the Magdalen are found in the Palazzo Spalletti-Trivelli in Bologna. There is a Salome with the St John the Baptist in the Fitzwilliam Museum attributed to Giovanni Gioseffo. He also frescoed the Palazzo Mansi in Lucca with a Judgement of Paris.
Among his many pupils were Felice Torelli, Lucia Casalini (Torelli's wife),[3] Antonio Beduzzi, Francesco Monti (Bologna), Bastiano Galleoti,[4] Gioseffo Vitali, Donato Creti, Giovanni Battista Grati (Batistino Grati), of Bologna[5] Gioseffo[6] and Cesare Mazzoni, Bernardino Norsini,[7] Giacomo Pavia,[8] Antonio Lunghi,[9] Carlo Salis,[10] Francesco Pavona, Dionigi Donnini (Girolamo Donini),[11] Francesco Comi (il Fornaretto), and Jacopo Saeta.[12] He also played some role as a mentor to a pupil of Pasinelli and Sirani (though unclear father or daughter Elisabetta), Teresa Muratori Scannabecchi,[13] and his Giovanni Gioseffo's granddaughter Francesca Fantoni.[14]
See also
References
- 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.
- 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' (1852). Biografia degli Artisti, Emporeo biografico metodico, volume 10. Venice (1840); Googlebooks: Co' Tipi di Gondolieri. p. 711.CS1 maint: location (link)
- 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. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 31, 2007.
- Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli (ed.). Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 663.
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