Girolamo Bonini 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, active mainly in Bologna

Bologna

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. Also known as L'Aconitano due to his natal city of Ancona

Ancona

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. He was the pupil of the painter Francesco Albani

Francesco Albani

Francesco Albani or Albano was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early years in Bologna:Born 1578 in Bologna, his father was a silk merchant who intended to instruct his son in the same trade; but by age twelve, Albani became an apprentice under the competent mannerist painter Denis Calvaert, where he...

. He painted a Christ adored by angels, St. Sebastian, and St. Bonaventure owned by the Louvre

Louvre

The Musée du Louvre – in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre – is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement...

 museum in Paris. Bonini was part of a team, including Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli was an Italian painter from Bologna of the Baroque period, who trained in the studio of Simone Cantarini....

, Luigi Scaramuccia, and Giovanni Maria Bibiena, working under Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani was an Italian painter of the Bolognese and of the Forlivese school, active in the Baroque period....

 in the decoration of the Sala Farnese of the city hall of Bologna.