Agostino Bonisoli (1633–1700) was an Italian painter of the
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
period, who was born and worked mainly in
Cremona
Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' ( Po Valley). It is the capital of th ...
. He was the pupil of the slightly older painter
Giovanni Battista Tortiroli, and afterward studied under a relation named Luigi Miradoro Agostino Bonisoli. He was more indebted to his own natural abilities and his studies of the works of
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...
than either his instructors. He was chiefly employed in
easel
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pictures of portraits, and of religious and historical subjects. His largest work was painted in the Church of
San Francesco, Cremona, depicting a dispute between St Anthony and the tyrant
Ezzelino
Ezzelino III da Romano (25 April 1194, Tombolo7 October 1259) was an Italian feudal lord, a member of the Ezzelino family, in the March of Treviso (in modern Veneto). He was a close ally of the emperor Frederick II ( r. 1220–1250), and ruled ...
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1633 births
1700 deaths
17th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian painters
Painters from Cremona
Italian Baroque painters
18th-century Italian male artists
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