Giovanni Ghisolfi
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Giovanni Ghisolfi (1623- 1683) was a Italian painter of the Baroque period.
He initially trained with his uncle, Antonio Volpino. Born in Milan, at the age of 17, he traveled to Rome with his friend Antonio Busa where he painted veduta and cappricci, mainly landscapes with architectural fragments and ruins.
He decorated in 1661 a chapel of the Certosa di Pavia. In 1664 he was called to Vicenza to execute, in the Palazzo Trissino Baston and the Palazzo Giustiniani Baggio, an series of decorative landscape frescoes. He painted also in Palazzo Borromeo Arese at Cesano, and in the fourth chapel of the Sacri Monti and covered the vaults of the Basilica of San Vittore in Varese.
[edit] Sources
- Wittkower, Rudolf (1980). Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. Pelican History of Art (Penguin Books Ltd), p 350.
- Artnet Grove Encyclopedia entry
