Giuseppe Ghezzi

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Giuseppe Ghezzi (* 1634 in Comunanza ; † 1721 in Rome ) was an Italian painter and copyist who was mainly active in Rome during the Baroque .

biography

He was the son and student of the painter Sebastiano Ghezzi and was born in Comunanza , in the province of Ascoli Piceno . Sebastiano died when Giuseppe was only eleven years old and he was sent to Fermo to study philosophy, but also took painting lessons from Lorenzino da Fermo . Then he moved to Rome, where he put painting over law school. He painted in many Roman churches.

He painted in the style of Pietro da Cortona and was the first secretary in perpetuity of the Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He was the father of Pier Leone Ghezzi and mentor of Pietro de 'Pietri (1634-1721).

On December 10, 1676, he borrowed a number of private works by Venetian masters and exhibited them in the cloister of San Salvatore in Rome. He published a book of collected poems about art that describes an academic competition. Ghezzi died in Rome in 1721.

literature

  • Maria Farquhar: Biographical catalog of the principal Italian painters . Ed .: Ralph Nicholson Wornum. London 1855, p. 72–73 (English, archive.org ).
  • Ernst Gombrich : Dizionario della Pittura e dei Pittori . Einaudi Editore, 1997 (Italian).
  • Rossella Faraglia:  GHEZZI, Giuseppe. In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 53:  Gelati – Ghisalberti. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biografia universale antica e moderna ossia Storia per alfabeto della vita . tape 24 . Presso Giovanni Battista Missiaglia, Venice, p. 160 (Italian, google.com ).
  2. ^ Giacinto Cantalamessa Carboni: Memorie intorno i letterati e gli artisti della città di Ascoli nel Piceno . S. 215 (Italian, google.com ).
  3. ^ Giuseppe Ghezzi: 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. . Stamperia di Giovanni Maria Salvioni nell'Archiginnasio della Sapienza, Rome 1726, pp. 72-73.

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SURNAME Ghezzi, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1634
PLACE OF BIRTH Comunanza
DATE OF DEATH 1721
Place of death Rome