Giuseppe Bonati 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 in Rome

Rome

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 and Ferrara

Ferrara

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He is also known as Giovannino del Pio or Giovanni Bonatti. He initially trained as a pupil of Francesco Costanzo Cattaneo

Francesco Costanzo Cattaneo

Francesco Costanzo Cattaneo was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, born and mainly active in Ferrara. He is also known as Costanzo or Costanza Cattanio....

 and Leonello Bononi. Under the patronage of cardinal Carlo Pio, in 1658 he was sent to Bologna

Bologna

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 to train with Guercino. In 1662, he travels to Rome to work in the studio of Pier Francesco Mola

Pier Francesco Mola

Pier Francesco Mola was an Italian painter of the High Baroque, mainly active around Rome.-Biography:Mola was born at Coldrerio . At the age of four, he moved to Rome with his father Giovanni Battista, a painter...

. Bonati attempts to establish a studio to rival Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...

. Along with his patrons, he traveled through Italy, including Venice

Venice

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, returning in 1665 to Rome where he worked in many churches, including Santa Croce in Gerusalemme

Santa Croce in Gerusalemme

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 and Santa Maria in Vallicella

Santa Maria in Vallicella

Santa Maria in Vallicella, also called Chiesa Nuova, is a church in Rome, Italy, which today faces onto the main thoroughfare of the Corso Vittorio Emanuele...

. In the Museo Capitolino are paintings of Rinaldo and Armida as well as Sisera and Jael. He painted for Queen Christina of Sweden.