Giovanni Girolamo Bonesi (1653–1725) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, 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 1 ...

. He was the pupil of the painter

Giovanni Maria Viani Giovanni Maria Viani (1636–1700) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Bologna. Biography Along with Lorenzo Pasinelli, he trained under Flaminio Torre. Among Giovanni's pupils was his son, Domenico (1668–1711), Giovanni ...

, but followed the style of

Carlo Cignani Carlo Cignani (15 May 1628 – 8 September 1719) was an Italian painter. His innovative style referred to as his 'new manner' introduced a reflective, intimate mood of painting and presaged the later pictures of Guido Reni and Guercino, as well a ...

. He painted a ''St Francis of Sales kneeling before the Virgin'' for the church of San Marino; a ''St Thomas of Villanova giving Alms to the Poor'' for the church of San Biagio; and a ''Virgin and Infant Christ, with Mary Magdalene and St Hugo'' for the Certosa di Bologna.

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