Gaudenzio Botti (1698 – 6 March 1775) 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, mainly active in his native

Brescia Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...

. He trained initially in Brescia with Faustino Raineri, a local

landscape painter Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compos ...

. Botti said he painted in the style of the Dutch landscape painter

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. He painted both interior and exterior scenes; the interior scenes were often candle-lit.Dizionario degli artisti bresciani
by Stefano Fenaroli, page 60-61.

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* 1698 births 1775 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Brescia Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub