Ambrogio Besozzi was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period.

He was born in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

 where his first training was with Gioseffo Danedi

Gioseffo Danedi

Gioseffo Danedi was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period.He was born at Treviglio, and was the brother of Giovanni Stefano Danedi, and together, they were known as the Montalti. Both received instruction from the Milanese painter Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli...

, il Montalto. He is also known as Giovanni Ambrogio Besozzi. Assisted Ciro Ferri

Ciro Ferri

Ciro Ferri was an Italian Baroque sculptor and painter, the chief pupil and successor of Pietro da Cortona.He was born in Rome, where he began working under Cortona and with a team of artists in the extensive fresco decorations of the Quirinal Palace...

 in Rome with work in quadratura and decoration. He returned to Milan, then Turin. He is buried in the church of Santa Maria presso San Satiro

Santa Maria presso San Satiro

Santa Maria presso San Satiro is a church of Milan.The church lies on the site of a primitive worship place erected by the archbishop Anspertus in 879, dedicated to Saint Satyrus, confessor and brother of Saints Ambrose and Marcellina. The current church was instead built from 1472 to 1482 under...

 in Milan. He also painted for churches of Turin

Turin

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 and Parma

Parma

Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....

. He etched two plates: Portrait of Correggio and Apotheosis of a Princess in which the portrait was by Bonacina, the other part of the plate by Besozzi; after Cesare Fiori. He died at Milan.