Bernardo Minozzi (

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, 12 August 1699 - Bologna, 5 March 1769) was an

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painter, mainly of landscapes in a late

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style.

Biography

Minozzi, as well as Carlo Lodi, received their initial training with Angiol Michele Cavazzoni, but soon both were studying under Nunzio Ferrajoli at the Accademia del Nudo in Bologna. Minozzi's tempera and watercolor landscapes became much in demand by both Italian and English collectors. The art merchant Antonio Forni sold his designs to a Zaccaria Sagredo, from the aristocratic family of Venice. His British patrons included the Job Right, physician for James Stuart, the Old Pretender and a Sir Sean Graham. One of his merchants for the transactions was a ''Milord Swins'' or Sweeny or McSweeny in Venice. In his travels, Minozzi also befriended Marc Antonio Chiarini and Monsu Chamant, architect to Grand Duke of Tuscany. Among his Italian patrons were the Marchese Guido Antonio Barbazza and Marchese Alessandro Pallavacini and Cardinal Pompeo Aldrovandi. In 1734, Minozzi moved to Florence and in 1735, joined Academy of Design in Florence. In 1737, he participated in their yearly displays at the cloister of the Annunziata. In 1739 went to Rome for two years painted for a Cardinal Rohan, likely met the landscape painter

Paolo Anesi Paolo Anesi (1697–1773) was an Italian painter of the 18th century, active mainly in painting capriccios and landscapes (vedute) in the style of Giovanni Paolo Pannini. Biography Born in Florence, he trained with Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari and ...

. In 1741, he returned to Bologna, where he frescoed for the Palazzo Caprara; Palazzo Pubblico of Bologna; the apartments (1750) for the Marchese Cesare Rasponi; and for the Counts Sicinio and Cornelio

Pepoli The Pepoli family was an Italian aristocratic banking family of Bologna, in northern Italy. They were lords of the city for thirteen years in the fourteenth century. A branch of the family moved to Trapani in Sicily and were granted several feu ...

. In 1748, he was made professor at

Accademia Clementina The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ('academy of fine arts of Bologna') is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia for more than 25 years. Hist ...

, and two years later served as director or ''principe''. His son

Flaminio Innocenzo Minozzi Flaminio Innocenzo Minozzi (3 October 1735 - 1817) was an Italian painter, mainly of quadratura. He was a pupil of his father Bernardo Minozzi, a landscape painter in Bologna. He won the Marsili-Aldrovandi Award (Premio Marsili-Aldrovandi) at the ...

(3 October 1735 - 1817) became a painter of

quadratura Illusionistic ceiling painting, which includes the techniques of perspective di sotto in sù and quadratura, is the tradition in Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo art in which ''trompe-l'œil'', perspective tools such as foreshortening, and other ...

. He won the Marsili-Aldrovandi prizes from the

. Flaminio worked in Italy with Carlo Galli Bibiena. He later moved to work in Lisbon.Vite de' pittori bolognesi non descritte nella Felsina pittrice alla maesta di Carlo Emanuele III.
by Luigi Crespi, 1769, Rome Stamperia di Marco Pagliarini, page 194-196.

References

1699 births 1769 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Italian landscape painters Painters from Bologna 18th-century Italian male artists Artists from the Papal States {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub