Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini (23 January 1757 – 1839) was an Italian painter.

Biography

Bonomini was born in

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

to an artist father Paolo Maria, who encouraged his son's artistic study. Bonomini's early works were done in a

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 that later developed into neoclassical. He worked in many fields. He left as a decorator of civil and sacred, but reached the popularity for his portraits, and especially for his caricatures. From 1824 to 1827 he had the painter Giuseppe Macinata as a pupil. Bonomini Targa

Works

One of his most noted works was scenes of the cycle of living skeletons that were commissioned by the Parish of Santa Grata Inter Vites Borgo Canale to remember the celebration of the

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of the dead. These paintings, after being exposed annually during the Triduum of the Dead in the parish of Borgo Canale, were exhibited at the

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in 1922, with great success. Noteworthy are also some decorations of public and private buildings in the Bergamo area, as well as the collection of his drawings kept at the Civic Art Collections of the

Sforza Castle The Castello Sforzesco (Italian for "Sforza's Castle") is a medieval fortification located in Milan, northern Italy. It was built in the 15th century by Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, on the remnants of a 14th-century fortification. Later reno ...

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References

* ''The mysteries of Bergamo'' by Emanuele Roncalli * ''Little anecdotes of Bergamo'' by Martino Compagnoni and Caesar Bonfanti {{DEFAULTSORT:Bonomini, Paolo Vincenzo 1757 births 1839 deaths Italian portrait painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Bergamo Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian male artists