Bonzi, Pietro Paolo - Früchte, Gemüse und ein Schmetterling - 1620

PP Bonzi Diana y la ninfa Calisto Palazzo Pitti

Pietro Paolo Bonzi - Landscape with Shepherds and Sheep - WGA02444

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

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and

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. 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 Cortona, was part of the circle of Annibale Carracci and

Domenichino Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a sho ...

, and trained under Giovanni Battista Viola in Rome. In Rome, he worked for Cardinal Pier Paolo Crescenzi. 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

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inventories of 1638 cite paintings by Bonzi, and other still-lifes are documented in the 1670 inventory of Principe

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's collection. He also worked in fresco and in 1622-23 worked with Pietro da Cortona on the ceiling of a gallery in the

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. Other commissions cited by

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include his work in the

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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, Florence

Notes

References

* *"A Pair of Landscape Paintings by Giovanni Battista Viola," Richard E. Spear, ''The Burlington Magazine'' (1993) p. 762-764. *

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, ''Arts and Architecture in Italy: 1600-1750''

External links

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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