Nosadella, full name Giovanni Francesco Bezzi, (active c. 1549–1571) was an Italian painter and draftsman, active during the
Mannerist
Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, ...
period, mainly in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label= 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 150 different nat ...
. He appears to have traveled to Rome.
He was a pupil of
Pellegrino Tibaldi
Pellegrino Tibaldi (Valsolda, 1527–Milan, 1596), also known as Pellegrino di Tibaldo de Pellegrini, was an Italian mannerism, mannerist architect, sculpture, sculptor, and mural Painting, painter.
Biography
Tibaldi was born in Puria di Valsol ...
. Few of his paintings have certain attribution; among them are a ''Madonna and Child with Saints'', painted for the
Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Vita
The Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Vita is a late- Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church in central Bologna, near the Piazza Maggiore.
History
The construction of the present Baroque church began in 1687-1690 under the designs of Giovanni Battis ...
in Bologna; and a ''Circumcision'' (1571), painted for the Church of
Santa Maria Maggiore
The Basilica of Saint Mary Major ( it, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, ; la, Basilica Sanctae Mariae Maioris), or church of Santa Maria Maggiore, is a Major papal basilica as well as one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and the larges ...
and completed by
Prospero Fontana
Prospero Fontana (1512–1597) was a Bolognese painter of late Renaissance and Mannerist art. He is perhaps best known for his frescoes and architectural detailing. The speed in which he completed paintings earned him commissions where he wo ...
.
References
Getty ULAN entry(1567)
16th-century births
1571 deaths
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Bologna
Mannerist painters
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