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Giuseppe Tortelli (1662- circa 1738) was an Italian painter of the 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 ...
period, active in
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.


Biography

He received a broad education in writing and philosophy. He traveled to
Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
to observe masters there, then to Venice. In 1708, he painted two large canvases, depicting the ''Assumption of Mary'' and ''Saints Faustino and Giovita in Adoration of the Cross'' for the Duomo Vecchio, but now in Duomo Nuovo of Brescia. In 1709, he lost a commission to
Andrea Celesti Andrea Celesti (1637–1712) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, working in Venice. His style gravitated over the years from a turgid and academic weightiness to a lighter, looser brushstroke. Biography Celesti was born in Venice and i ...
to paint for the Duomo of
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. He painted a ''San Liborio'' (1711) for the Duomo Vecchio, also transferred to the Duomo Nuovo. He painted three scenes of the ''Passion of Christ'' (1712) for a via cruces in the chapel of the Santissimi Sacramento of Sant'Agata in Brescia; a ''Madonna con St Alberto Carmelitano'' (1721) for the church of the
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; a ''St Matthew and the Angel'' (1726) for Santa Maria della Carità ; an altarpiece of ''Christ appears to Saints Pellegrino Laziosi, and Giuliano Confalonieri'' (1735) for Sant'Alessandro ; an altarpiece depicting ''Santi Nicola da Bari, Sebastiano, e Rocco'' (1737) for the sacristy of the parish of
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; an altarpiece of ''Martyrdon of St Erasmus'' (1738) for San Zeno al Foro; and a ''Holy Trinity'' (1738) for San Francesco. In Brescia in the church of
San Pietro in Oliveto San Pietro in Oliveto is a Roman Catholic church located at the end of via del Castello in central Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy. History The church was founded in late 11th or early 12th-centuries, and began attached a Benedictine order, Be ...
, the altarpiece in the second altar on the left, depicting ''St John of the Cross in Contemplation'', is attributed to him.A. Loda, (2014) page 24. he painted a series of eight Saints for the
Oratory of the Disciplini, Ostiano The Oratorio dei Disciplini is a Roman Catholic oratory, or small church, located in Ostiano Ostiano (Brescian: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Cremona in the Italian region Lombardy, located about southeast of Milan and abou ...
, province of Cremona.
Giuseppe Zola Giuseppe Zola (5 March 1672 – 27 March 1743) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Ferrara. He mainly painted landscapes with small figures. Born in Brescia, where he studied with Giuseppe Tortelli. His sister was als ...
was one of his pupils.


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* 1662 births 1738 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Brescia 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub