Pietro Paolo Bonzi
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Pietro Paolo Bonzi
(b Cortona, c. 1576; d Rome, 17 March 1636). Italian painter and printmaker. Perhaps because of his deformity (gobbo means hunchback in Italian), which would have made physical work difficult, his father, a carpenter, apprenticed him to a local painter. Bonzi left Cortona for Rome probably in the mid-1590s and, according to Malvasia, studied with Giovanni Battista Viola, a member of the Carracci circle who specialized in landscape painting. Bonzi was recorded at meetings of the Accademia di S Luca between 1621 and 1634, once as treasurer. Around 1620-24 he worked on his only major fresco commission, decorating the ceiling of a gallery in the Palazzo Mattei di Giove, in the company of his younger compatriot Pietro da Cortona. Bonzi supplied the grisaille framework and coloured garlands of fruit and flowers surrounding the narrative scenes of the Life of Solomon and painted those of the Marriage and Anointing. His limitations as a figure painter were noted by Baglione.
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Pietro Paolo Bonzi
Pietro Paolo Bonzi (c. 1576-1636) also known as il Gobbo dei Carracci (hunchback of the Carracci) or il Gobbo dei Frutti (of fruits), was an Italian painter, best known for his landscapes and still-lifes.
he was born in Cortona, he was part of the circle of Annibale Carracci and Domenichino, and trained under Giovanni Battista Viola in Rome. In Rome, he worked for Cardinal Pier Paolo Crescenzi in Rome. There are only two still-life paintings known with his signature; he thus forms one of the first Italian artists in Rome working in this style. The Giustiniani inventories of 1638 cite paintings by Bonzi and other still-lifes are documented in the 1670 inventory of Principe Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna's collection. He also worked in fresco and in 1622-23 worked with Pietro da Cortona on the ceiling of a gallery in the Palazzo Mattei di Giove. Other commissions cited by Baglione include his work in the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi.
References
- Web Gallery of Art Biography.
- "A Pair of Landscape Paintings by Giovanni Battista Viola," Richard E. Spear, The Burlington Magazine (1993) p. 762-764.
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves. ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 158. http://books.google.com/booksid=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1.
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