Pier francesco cavazza, deposizione, 1712

Pier Francesco Cavazza (1675 – 14 October 1755) was an Italian painter and art collector, active in his native

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 ...

History

He trained in Bologna under

Giovanni Maria Viani Giovanni Maria Viani (1636–1700) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Bologna. Biography Along with Lorenzo Pasinelli, he trained under Flaminio Torre. Among Giovanni's pupils was his son, Domenico (1668–1711), Giovanni Gir ...

, where he was influenced by the works of

Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (February 8, 1591 – December 22, 1666),Miller, 1964 better known as Guercino, or il Guercino , was an Italian Baroque painter and draftsman from Cento in the Emilia region, who was active in Rome and Bologna. The vig ...

. Unlike other Viani pupils, he became less interested in painting, and accumulated a large collection of engravings and drawings. Upon his death, the collection was dispersed. Cavazza died in Bologna.Biografia universale antica e moderna ossia Storia per alfabeto della vita
page 398-399.

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