Giuseppe Pedretti (26 February 1697 – 27 May 1778) was an

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painter of the late-

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period, active mainly in

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Biography

Born in Bologna, at the age of 15, he began training, despite the opposition of his family, under Carlo Antonio Rambaldi. When Rambaldi left for Turin in 1714, he moved to work under

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and his son

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. he stayed in that studio till 1729. In 1729, he moved for three years to Poland, to paint for the House of Rzewuski in

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, where he completed a number of portraits and frescoes on sacred subjects for the Carmelite Church. After a spell in Mantua, Sabbioneta, and Viadana, between 1726 and 1727, he was commissioned by Antonio Cavazza to paint ''Joseph retrieves the Silver Cup from Benjamin's Bag'' (now in

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). In 1732, he returned to Bologna, and in 1739, he joined the

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. In 1744 he painted a ''Madonna and Saints Anthony Abbot and Vitale'' in the parish of San Vitale di Calderara, and afterwards frescoes depicting the ''Martyrdom of San Procolo'' in the choir of the church of

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. In 1761 he painted the portrait of Padre Giuseppe Bentivoglio (Convent of San Giuseppe, Bologna) and in 1766 he exhibited in San Domenico three canvases depicting the ''Life of San Vincenzo Ferrer''. Pedretti painted lunettes in the nave for the church of

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in Bologna. He painted altarpieces in the church of the Immaculate Conception of

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. One of his pupils was the wax sculptor

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. He was named a member of the

, and elected twice, the "prince" of the academy (1754 and 1770). His son,

Vincenzo Pedretti Vincenzo is an Italian male given name, derived from the Latin name Vincentius (the verb ''vincere'' means to win or to conquer). Notable people with the name include: Art *Vincenzo Amato (born 1966), Italian actor and sculptor * Vincenzo Bell ...

, was also a figure painter in Bologna.Guida del forestiere per la città di Bologna e suoi sobborghi
by Girolamo Bianconi; Annesio Nobili, Bologna, 1820, page 528.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pedretti, Giuseppe 1697 births 1778 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Bologna 18th-century Italian male artists