Giuseppe Bazzani (1690 – 1769)

• Was an Italian painter of the Rococo.

• Born in Mantua to a goldsmith, Giovanni Bazzani.

• He apprenticed with the Parmesan painter Giovanni Canti.

• A fellow pupil was Francesco Maria Raineri.

• He spent most of his life in Mantua.

• From 1752, he was faculty, and from 1767, director of the Accademia di Belle Arti of Mantua. 

• Among his early works are paintings of the Miracles of Pius V, the Conversion of a Heretic and the Healing of a Madwoman (all mid-1720s; Mantua, Museum of the Ducal Palace of Mantua).

• The painter Domenico Conti Bazzani was his pupil and adopted son, and became a prominent Neoclassical painter in Rome. 

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