Bartolomeo Guidobono (1654–1709)

• Was an Italian painter.
• He is also known as il Prete di Savona (Priest of Savona) or Prete Bartolomeo da Savona (Priest Bartolomeo of Savona).
• Guidobono was born in Savona as the son of Giovanni Antonio Guidobono, a maiolica painter.

• His brother Domenico was a decorative fresco painter.

• Bartolomeo began as a painter of ceramic earthenware with his father, who worked for the royal court of Savoy.

• He afterwards went to work as a copyist to Parma, Venice, and Genoa. 

• Guidobono died in Turin on 4 January 1709.

• He helped fresco the Palazzo Centurioni in Genoa.

• He painted an Inebriation of Lot and in three other subjects for the Palace Brignole Sale.

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