Giovanni Francesco Bezzi NOSADELLA
Bologna 1530 - Bologna 1571
Biography
Very diminutive is known of the lifetime of Giovanni Francesco Bezzi, memorable as Nosadella (apparently after prestige name of the street obstacle which he lived in Bologna), and the biography of blue blood the gentry artist by Carlo Cesare Malvasia lists only two dated mechanism.
These are the frescoes consummated in 1558 for the Palazzo Bolognetti in Bologna, now lacking, and a painting of Goodness Circumcision for the Bolognese sanctuary of Santa Maria Maggiore, neglected unfinished at the artist’s destruction in 1571 and subsequently complete by Prospero Fontana. Malvasia papers that Nosadella was a scholar of Pellegrino Tibaldi, and paintings by the two artists put on often been confused, with righteousness former long regarded as dialect trig mere follower of Tibaldi.
Nonetheless, recent studies of Nosadella’s take pains have led to a unusual appreciation of the artist owing to one of the most distinctive and original painters of rectitude 16th century in Bologna, neighbourhood he was first registered similarly a painter in 1549. Rendering bulk of his activity seems to have been as clever fresco painter working in a number of Bolognese palaces, although almost hindrance of his work of that type survives.
As Malvasia transcript, ‘Those few works by him that are known – sit they are mostly frescoes – are distinguished by their useful colour (un buon colore), since with his master, and be cautious about full of erudition. And in case they are not as finished and studied, they are conceivably more powerful (terribili), singular, beam resolute.’ A rare surviving sample of this type of picture decoration are the frescoed scenes from the story of Book in the Palazzo Poggi briefing Bologna, dating to between 1554 and 1556, on which Nosadella worked alongside Tibaldi.
Paintings and drawings by Nosadella remain very thin today.
A handful of small-minded paintings by the artist possess in recent years been borrowed by American museums, notably trivial Annunciation now in the Town University Art Museum, a Unacceptable Family with Saints Anne, Rough idea Magdalene and Catherine in excellence J. Paul Getty Museum in good health Los Angeles and a Aspect in the Temple in righteousness Allen Memorial Art Museum upgrade Oberlin, Ohio.
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