Carlo Bononi
Italian painter (1569-1632)
Carlo Bononi (1569? - 1632) was an Italian painter. An 1876 book lists him among "the last artists of any eminence in Ferrara".
Biography
Bononi was active mainly in his home territories of Emilia and Ferrara, and is considered to be a painter of the School of Ferrara. He studied under Giuseppe Mazzuoli, known as il Bastarolo. He knew Guercino and was eulogized by Guido Reni as having a "bounty of a most honest life, a great knowledge of design, and strength in colorizing". Bononi rose to prominence in Ferrara after the death of the painter Scarsellino, and was subsequently called to Rome. He was initially buried in Santa Maria in Vado, for which he had helped decorate the ceiling with various canvases.
Among his pupils were Alfonso Rivarola (il Chenda), Giovanni Battista dalla Torre, and Camillo Berlinghieri. His nephew, Leonello Bononi was also a painter.
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