Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (10 December 1654 – 22 July 1719) was an

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painter and engraver from

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, active in the late-

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period. Upon the death of

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, Gioseffo dal Sole became among the most prominent painters in Bologna, described as the ''

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Moderno''.

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His father, Giovanni Antonio Maria, also called ''Mochino de` Paesi'' due to his ambidextrous dexterity, was a landscape painter who trained with

Francesco Albani Francesco Albani or Albano (17 March or 17 August 1578 – 4 October 1660) was an Italian Baroque painter who was active in Bologna (1591–1600), Rome (1600–1609), Bologna (1609), Viterbo (1609–1610), Bologna (1610), Rome (1610–1617), ...

. Giovanni Gioseffo first apprenticed with

Domenico Maria Canuti Domenico Maria Canuti (5 April 1625– 6 April 1684) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Rome. He was a major painter of fresco decorations. His ceiling decorations showed a mix of Bolognese and Roman infl ...

, and then in 1672; he entered the Roman studio of

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. He painted frescoes in the cupola of ''Santa Maria dei Poveri'' in Bologna, and an altarpiece of the ''Trinity'' (1700) for the ''Chiesa del Suffragio'' in

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. He is said to have collaborated with

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He was one of the painters who contributed a canvas depicting the mythologic scene of ''Andromache weeping before Aeneas'' for the renowned ''Aenid Gallery'' of the

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; a decoration that employed many of the premier contemporary artists: with frescoes by Rambaldi,

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, and Solimena; and canvases by Garzi, Gambarini,

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, Lazzarini, and Franceschini. Two paintings by Dal Sole, ''Diana with cupids'' and ''Ecstasy of the Magdalen'' are found in the Palazzo Spalletti-Trivelli in Bologna. There is a ''Salome with the St John the Baptist'' in the Fitzwilliam Museum attributed to Giovanni Gioseffo. He also frescoed the Palazzo Mansi in

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with a ''Judgement of Paris''. Among his many pupils were

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, Lucia Casalini (Torelli's wife),

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, Bastiano Galleoti, Gioseffo Vitali,

Donato Creti Donato Creti (24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bol ...

, Giovanni Battista Grati (Batistino Grati), of Bologna Gioseffo and Cesare Mazzoni, Bernardino Norsini, Giacomo Pavia, Antonio Lunghi,

Carlo Salis Carlo Salis (1680–1763) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Verona. He was initially a pupil of the painter Alessandro Marchesini, then went to work under Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole and later with Antonio Balestra in Venice ...

Francesco Pavona Francesco Pavona (c. 1695, Udine - c. 1777 Venice) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was peripatetic, and became best known throughout Europe for pastel portraits, similar in style to Rosalba Carriera. Pavona first studied in Udi ...

, Dionigi Donnini (Girolamo Donini), Francesco Comi (''il Fornaretto''), and Jacopo Saeta. He also played some role as a mentor to a pupil of Pasinelli and Sirani (though unclear father or daughter Elisabetta), Teresa Muratori Scannabecchi, and his Giovanni Gioseffo's granddaughter Francesca Fantoni.

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