Gioacchino Pizzoli

Gioacchino Pizzoli (1651 in Bologna – 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 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

  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 Archived 2015-07-21 at the Wayback Machine, entry on photographs of Collegio Artistico Venturoli.

Reading

  • Ingrid Sjöström, Quadratura. Studies in Italian Ceiling Paintings, Stockholm, Almqvist och Wiksell, 1978. (ISBN 912200176-X)



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