Giuseppe Bottani
Italian painter (1717-1784)
Giuseppe Bottani (1717 – 1784) was an Italian painter active in the Baroque period.
Biography
He was born in Cremona, and lived as a boy in Pontremoli. He was sent to study in Florence, where he was a pupil of Vincenzo Meucci and Antonio Puglieschi. He moved to Rome to work under Agostino Masucci, then he returned to Cremona after 1745. In 1769, he was named professor of painting and director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Mantua. He was known for painting landscapes in the style of Gaspard Poussin, and figures in the style of Maratta.
He painted a St. Paola taking leave of her Attendants, once in the church of Santi Cosmo e Damiano at Milan. He painted an Assumption of the Virgin with twelve apostles for the choir of the Pontremoli Cathedral. He painted an Assumption with Saints Francis, Andrea Avellino, Carlo Borromeo, Luigi Gonzaga, and Magdalen for the church of San Francesco in Pontremoli.
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