Giuseppe Avanzi [SEP] place of death
Giuseppe Avanzi
Giuseppe Avanzi (August 30, 1645 – May 29, 1718) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Ferrara.
He trained with Cattaneo in Ferrara. He was a prolific painter of religious canvases in his natal city, including for the Certosa of Ferrara and the church of the Madonna della Pieta.
External links.
- Census of Ferrarese Paintings and Drawings
has stucco statues of the four doctors of the church: "Augustine", "Gregory the Great", "Jerome", and "Ambrose" by an 18th-century sculptors of the Venetian-school.
The ceiling was frescoed in 1674 by Giuseppe Avanzi with collaboration of the quadraturist Giuseppe Menegatti.
In the center oval, Avanzi painted the "Glory of the Virgin with Saints Ambrose and Carlo Borromeo". The lunette over the entrance has a "San Carlo" painted by Antonio Bonfanti.
An inventory