Domenico Guidobono (1668–1746)
• Was an Italian painter of easel paintings and frescoes.
• Domenico Guidobono was born in Savona as the son of Giovanni Antonio Guidobono and Geronima Cross.
• His father was a decorative painter.
• His older brother Bartolomeo gained a major reputation as a decorative fresco painter.
• As from a young age Domenico travelled and worked with his brother on commissions.
• It is assumed that the young artist travelled with his brother in the early 1680s to Turin where they worked during the years 1684-85 on frescoes for the Monastery of Casanova at Carmagnola, a small town near Turin.
• Domenico Guidobono was active in Turin and the rest of the Duchy until the ascent of the architect Filippo Juvara.
• After the death of the duchess in 1724 Domenico moved to Genoa.
• In Genoa he got commissions as the frescoes in Palazzo Ottavio Imperiale on Campetto square and in the palazzo Negrone on Piazza Fontane Marose.
• According to the oldest sources, Domenico died in 1746 in Naples, where, already elderly, he had moved for some time to work.
