Giovanni Odazzi [SEP] place of death
Giovanni Odazzi
Giovanni Odazzi (1663 – 6 June 1731) was an Italian painter and etcher of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. 
Biography.
He was a pupil of Ciro Ferri, then worked under the guidance of Giovanni Battista Gaulli. He also worked with Cornelis Bloemaert. Among his many works in Rome, he painted a "Prophet Hosea" for San Giovanni in Laterano and a "Fall of Lucifer and rebel angels" for the basilica of the Santi Apostoli, Rome. He frescoed the cupola
to the ancient rotunda, and contains a sculpture of St Francis by Giacomo Antonio Fancelli. The large canvases in the lateral altars are by Giovanni Odazzi.
The German painter Johann Friedrich Overbeck, founder of the Nazarene art movement, is buried here. The abbot Barreiro is buried left of the main alter; also buried in the church are the cardinals Francesco Gabrielli and Giovanni Bona of Monreale.
List of Cardinal Protectors.
This church is the seat of cardinalatial title of "S. Bernardi ad Thermas".
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