Giuseppe Varotti (

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 ...

, 1715- Bologna, 1780) was an Italian painter, active depicting sacred and historical subjects in a late- Baroque or

Rococo Rococo (, also ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, ...

style.

Biography

He trained with his father, Pier Paolo Varotti (1686-1732), a follower of

Giuseppe Maria Crespi Giuseppe Maria Crespi (March 14, 1665 – July 16, 1747), nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo ("The Spaniard"), was an Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits, but he is now most ...

. Giuseppe Varotti painted a ''St Roch'' once in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Carpi. One of his pupils was Jacopo Alessandro Calvi (1740-1815).Memorie originali italiane risguardanti le belle arti
Volume 1, 1846, by Michelangelo Gualandi, M.G., page 28.

References

Renato Roli, ''Giuseppe Varotti e il Settecento Bolognese'', Galleria de' Fusari
1715 births 1780 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Bologna 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub