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Pietro Paolo Bonzi (c. 1576–1636), also known as ''il Gobbo dei Carracci'' (hunchback of the Carracci) or ''il Gobbo dei Frutti'' (of fruits), was an Italian painter, best known for his landscapes and still-lifes. A cartoon of the painter shows his highly deformed lordotic posture. The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 5, Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth ...
By Anna Forlani Tempesti, pages 332-3 He was born in
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1570s births 1636 deaths People from Cortona 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Italian still life painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub
Pietro Paolo Bonzi (c. 1576–1636), also known as ''il Gobbo dei Carracci'' (hunchback of the Carracci) or ''il Gobbo dei Frutti'' (of fruits), was an Italian painter, best known for his landscapes and still-lifes. A cartoon of the painter shows his highly deformed lordotic posture.By Anna Forlani Tempesti, pages 332-3 He was born in
Cortona
Cortona (, ) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. It is the main cultural and artistic centre of the Val di Chiana after Arezzo.
Toponymy
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, was part of the circle of Annibale Carracci
Annibale Carracci (; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of th ...
and Domenichino, and trained under Giovanni Battista Viola
Giovanni Battista Viola (June 16, 1576 – August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome.
Biography
Giovanni was born in Bologna. His skills were initially noticed by Annibale Carracci. He collaborated with Domen ...
in Rome. In Rome, he worked for Cardinal Pier Paolo Crescenzi
Pier Paolo Crescenzi (1572 – 19 February 1645) was an Italian Catholic cardinal.
Crescenzi was born in 1572, the son of Virgilio Crescenzi, Baron of Montorio, and Costanza del Drago, of the Marquises of Riofreddo. He was the brother of ar ...
. There are only two still-life paintings known with his signature; he thus was one of the first Italian artists in Rome working in this style. The Giustiniani inventories of 1638 cite paintings by Bonzi, and other still-lifes are documented in the 1670 inventory of Principe Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna's collection. He also worked in fresco and in 1622-23 worked with Pietro da Cortona
Pietro da Cortona (; 1 November 1596 or 159716 May 1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman ...
on the ceiling of a gallery in the Palazzo Mattei di Giove. Other commissions cited by Baglione include his work in the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi.
Works
*''Fruits, Vegetables and a Butterfly'' (1620), private collection *''Italianate River Landscape'', private collection *''Landscape with Shepherds and Sheep'', Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome *At the Louvre, Paris: **''Landscape with a Dog'' **''Diana and the Nymph Callisto'', Palazzo Pitti, FlorenceNotes
References
* *"A Pair of Landscape Paintings by Giovanni Battista Viola," Richard E. Spear, ''The Burlington Magazine'' (1993) p. 762-764. * Rudolf Wittkower, ''Arts and Architecture in Italy: 1600-1750''External links
Web Gallery of Art Biography.
1570s births 1636 deaths People from Cortona 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Baroque painters Italian still life painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub