Giuseppe Bazzani was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Rococo

Rococo

Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...

.

Born in Mantua

Mantua

Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic, cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole...

 to a goldsmith

Goldsmith

A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Since ancient times the techniques of a goldsmith have evolved very little in order to produce items of jewelry of quality standards. In modern times actual goldsmiths are rare...

, Giovanni Bazzani, early on he apprenticed with the Parmesan

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....

 painter Giovanni Canti

Giovanni Canti

Giovanni Canti was an Italian painter of the Baroque. Born in Parma. Active in early 18th century. Among his pupils were Giuseppe Bazzani and Francesco Maria Raineri. He resided chiefly at Mantua, where he painted mainly battle-pieces and landscapes.-References:...

 (1653-1715). A fellow pupil was Francesco Maria Raineri

Francesco Maria Raineri

Francesco Maria Raineri was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, mainly active in Mantua.Also called Lo Schivenoglia after the town, just outside of the city of Mantua, of his birth. He was a pupil of Giovanni Canti...

. 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.

While esconced in a declining provincial city, he absorbed international influences. His loose brushstrokes, fervid often dark emotionalism, and tortured poses, which recall at times later expressionism

Expressionism

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...

, display stylistic tendencies more typical of Lombardy

Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...

. Numerous artists, including Fetti

Domenico Fetti

Domenico Fetti was an Italian Baroque painter active mainly in Rome, Mantua and Venice.-Biography:...

, Bencovich

Federiko Benkovic

Federiko Benković was a prominent late Baroque painter. He is best known as Federico Bencovich or Federico Bencovic, but also as Federigo or Federighetto or Dalmatino....

, Rubens, and Magnasco

Alessandro Magnasco

Alessandro Magnasco , also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa...

 are said to have influenced him, although the number and diversity of the artists suggested hints that he had an idiosyncratic and unique synthesis for his time.

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), initially painted for the church of Saint Maurizio in Mantua. He painted depictions of the evangelists St. John

John the Evangelist

Saint John the Evangelist is the conventional name for the author of the Gospel of John...

, St. Mark

Mark the Evangelist

Mark the Evangelist is the traditional author of the Gospel of Mark. He is one of the Seventy Disciples of Christ, and the founder of the Church of Alexandria, one of the original four main sees of Christianity....

 and St. Luke

Luke the Evangelist

Luke the Evangelist was an Early Christian writer whom Church Fathers such as Jerome and Eusebius said was the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles...

 (all late 1720s) for the parish church of Vasto di Goito. He painted the Baptism, the Ecstasy of St. Aloysius Gonzaga

Aloysius Gonzaga

- Early life :Aloysius Gonzaga was born at his family's castle in Castiglione delle Stiviere, between Brescia and Mantova in northern Italy in what was then part of the Papal States. He was a member of the illustrious House of Gonzaga...

and the Ecstasy of Saints Francis & Anthony (1732) for the parish church of Borgoforte

Borgoforte

Borgoforte is a comune in the Province of Mantua in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 130 km southeast of Milan and about 14 km southwest of Mantua....

. Seven canvases depicting the Life of Alexander the Great were painted for Giacomo Biondi, one of the artist's early patrons.

Anthology

Label	Work	Date	Site	Link
a.	Via Crucis		San Barnaba, Mantua
b.	Via Crucis		parish church, Cavriana
c.	History of Alexander the Great	c. 1740	Palazzo d'Arco, Mantua
d.	Baptism of Christ	c. 1732	Parish church, Borgoforte Borgoforte Borgoforte is a comune in the Province of Mantua in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 130 km southeast of Milan and about 14 km southwest of Mantua....
e.	Ecstasy of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga	c. 1729	Parish church, Borgoforte Borgoforte Borgoforte is a comune in the Province of Mantua in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 130 km southeast of Milan and about 14 km southwest of Mantua....
f.	Baptism of Christ	c. 1737	San Giovanni del Dosso, Mantua
g.	Delivery of the Keys to St. Peter	1739	Parish Church, Goito Goito Goito is a comune of Lombardy, Italy, in the Province of Mantua, from which it is some 20 km, on the road to Brescia. It is situated on the right bank of the Mincio River near the bridge.-History:...
h.	Sermon of the Baptist	c. 1740	parish church, Gazoldo degli Ippoliti
i.	Doubting Thomas	c. 1742	Private collection
j.	Adoration by the Magi
k.	Madonna with St. Clare & Annunciation	1751-52	Parish church, Revere Revere -People:*Anne Revere, U.S. film actress of the 1940s*Ben Revere, American Baseball Player in the Minnesota Twins organization*Joseph W. Revere, Union general in the American Civil War*Lawrence Revere, U.S. author and professional gambler*Paul Revere, U.S...
l.	Miracles of Pius V	1752	San Maurizio, Mantua
m.	Ovals in private collections		Mantua and Bologna
n.	Ovals of the Miracle of the Rosary		originally, parish church of Cavriana
o.	Canvases		Santa Maria della Carita, Mantua
p.	Ovals for the ceiling of St. Barnaba	c. 1768	San Paolo, Mantua
q.	St. Margaret of Cortona	1764	Prampolini-Tirelli collection
r.	Saint Anthony of Padua with the Infant Christ	c. 1745	National Gallery, London	http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG3663
s.	Pieta with Mary Magdalen	c. 1750	Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA	http://www.clevelandart.org/explore/artistwork.asp?searchText=Bazzani&tab=1&recNo=0&woRecNo=1
t.	Incredulity of St. Thomas	1730	Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona, USA	http://www.kressfoundation.org/cgi-bin/kressorg/2templateb.cgi?17&Giuseppe+Bazzani&works&0
u.	Departure of Prodigal Son	1750	Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City	http://www.kressfoundation.org/cgi-bin/kressorg/2templateb.cgi?17&Giuseppe+Bazzani&works&1
v.	The Tribute Money		MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan	http://www.mackenzieartgallery.sk.ca/collection/view.cgi?cmd=artist&artist_id=15
w.	The Tribute Money	1742	San Diego Museum of Art, California, USA
x.	Rest in Flight to Egypt		Accademia, Venice
y.	The Daughter of Jephte		Louvre, Paris	http://www.insecula.com/contact/A009496.html
z.	The walk to Mount Calvary		Louvre, Paris	http://www.insecula.com/contact/A009496.html
aa.	Deposition from the Cross			http://www.lombardiacultura.it/acquisizioni.cfm?rid=25
bb.	The Ecstasy of St Theresa	1745		http://www.wga.hu/html/b/bazzani/therese.html
cc.	Agony of Christ in the Garden		Uffizi Gallery, Florence
dd.	Santa Margarita da Cortona	1740	Galleria della Fondazione Banca Agricola Mantovana, Mantua	http://www.fondazione.bam.it/Ita/SchedaOpera9eef.html?Id=1&I=Ok&P=
dd.	St. Longinus, Sant'Andrea, Sant'Elena with the relice of the precious blood	1740	ibid	http://www.fondazione.bam.it/Ita/SchedaOperaf0b3.html?Id=2&A=Ok&P=