Bernardo Minozzi ( Bologna, 12 August 1699 - Bologna, 5 March 1769) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes in a late

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 ...

style.

Biography

Minozzi, as well as Carlo Lodi, received their initial training with Angiol Michele Cavazzoni, but soon both were studying under Nunzio Ferrajoli at the Accademia del Nudo in Bologna. Minozzi's tempera and watercolor landscapes became much in demand by both Italian and English collectors. The art merchant Antonio Forni sold his designs to a Zaccaria Sagredo, from the aristocratic family of Venice. His British patrons included the Job Right, physician for James Stuart, the Old Pretender and a Sir Sean Graham. One of his merchants for the transactions was a ''Milord Swins'' or Sweeny or McSweeny in Venice. In his travels, Minozzi also befriended Marc Antonio Chiarini and Monsu Chamant, architect to Grand Duke of Tuscany. Among his Italian patrons were the Marchese Guido Antonio Barbazza and Marchese Alessandro Pallavacini and Cardinal Pompeo Aldrovandi. In 1734, Minozzi moved to Florence and in 1735, joined Academy of Design in Florence. In 1737, he participated in their yearly displays at the cloister of the Annunziata. In 1739 went to Rome for two years painted for a Cardinal Rohan, likely met the landscape painter Paolo Anesi. In 1741, he returned to Bologna, where he frescoed for the Palazzo Caprara; Palazzo Pubblico of Bologna; the apartments (1750) for the Marchese Cesare Rasponi; and for the Counts Sicinio and Cornelio Pepoli. In 1748, he was made professor at

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 Acc ...

, and two years later served as director or ''principe''. His son Flaminio Innocenzo Minozzi (3 October 1735 - 1817) became a painter of quadratura. He won the Marsili-Aldrovandi prizes from the

. Flaminio worked in Italy with

Carlo Galli Bibiena The Galli–Bibiena family, or Galli da Bibiena (also spelled "Bibbiena"), was a family of Italian artists of the 17th and 18th centuries, including: "Ferdinando Galli Bibiena Online" (overview), John Malyon, ''Artcyclopedia'', 2005, Artcycl ...

. He later moved to work in Lisbon.Vite de' pittori bolognesi non descritte nella Felsina pittrice alla maesta di Carlo Emanuele III.
by Luigi Crespi, 1769, Rome Stamperia di Marco Pagliarini, page 194-196.

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1699 births 1769 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Italian landscape painters Painters from Bologna 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub