Antonio Bonetti (1710–1787) was an

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

painter, active mainly in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nat ...

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective ''di sotto in sù'' and ''quadratura'', is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, an ...

painting.

Biography

He trained with

Serafino Brizzi Serafino Brizzi (1684–1737) was an Italian engraver of the Baroque period, active in Bologna. He is believed to have trained with Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena (18 August 1657 – 3 January 1743),"Galli-Bibiena, Ferdinand ...

. He painted in the church of the Madonna del Baraccano in Bologna. In the year of his death, he was elected to the

Accademia Clementina The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...

. He also decorated a room in the Palazzo Orsi in via San Vitale number 28. Among his pupils was Vincenzo Conti.Guida del forestiere per la città di Bologna e suoi sobborghi
by Girolamo Bianconi, (1826), page 220.

References

1710 births 1787 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Quadratura painters Painters from Bologna 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub