Giulio Benso

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Giulio Benso (Pieve di Teco, 30 October 1592-1668) was a Genovese painter of the early Baroque. He is known as one of the followers of the style of Luca Cambiasi.

Initially under patronage of Giovanni Carl Doria, in his hospitality, he meets Giulio Cesare Procaccini. He is encouraged to study in the Genovese Accademia del Nudo. Afterwords, he apprentices with Giovanni Battista Paggi. Outside of his work in Liguria, he decorated the Palazzo Grimaldi in Cagnes-sur-Mer with the Fall of Phaeton and sent works to the Abbey of Weingarten in Germany. In the 1640s, he completed his masterpiece, a fresco in the presbitery and apse of the church of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato. There are also paintings of his in his hometown of Pieve di Teco as well as in the parish church of Sant'Ambrogio in Alassio.

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