Giuseppe Ghezzi
Giuseppe Ghezzi (November 6, 1634[1]–1721) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome.
Biography
Born in Comunanza, in the Marche (then part of the Papal States), he was the son and pupil of the painter Sebastiano Ghezzi.[2] He painted in the style of Pietro da Cortona. Giuseppe Ghezzi was the first secretary in perpetuity for the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He was the father of the more prominent caricaturist Pier Leone Ghezzi (born June 28, 1674). Another son, Placido, was Apostolic Protonotary.[3] Giuseppe was also a mentor to Pietro da Pietri (1634–1721).
On December 10, 1676, he borrowed a number of privately owned works by Venetian masters and exhibited them in the cloisters of San Salvatore in Lauro in Rome. He published a book of collected poems about art that describes an academi competition.[4]
Ghezzi died in Rome in 1721.
References
- ↑
- Ricci, Amico (1855). Memorie storiche delle arti e degli artisti della marca di Ancona Volume 1. pp. page.
- ↑ Sebastiano was a pupil of Guercino.
- ↑ A. Ricci page 328
- ↑
- Ghezzi, Giuseppe (1726). Le Tre Belle Arti Pittura , Scultura, e Architectura, In Lega coll'Armi per difesa della Religione:Mostrate nel Campidoglio Sall'Accademia del Disegno, Reggendo il Principato della medesima il Cavalier Carlo Francesco Person.. Rome: Stamperia di Giovanni Maria Salvioni nell'Archiginnasio della Sapienza. pp. page 72–73.
Sources
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum, ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006: Woodfall & Kinder. pp. page 72–73.
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