Giovanni Giuseppe Cosattini (February 18, 1625 in

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– 1699) was an Italian painter, mainly active in

, and after 1668 in the imperial court of

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Biography

It is unclear from whom Cosattini gained his training; he became in 1654 a canon in

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, and thus had opportunities to be exposed to

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painters. His style seems to reflect the work of

Padovanino Alessandro Leone Varotari (4 April 1588 – 20 July 1649), also commonly known as Il Padovanino, was an Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque Venetian school, best known for having mentored Pietro Liberi, Giulio Carpioni, an ...

. He painted a ''St Phillip in Ectasy'' for the Oratory of the Fillipini, and also painted for the church of the Carità in Udine. He returned to Udine from Vienna after breaking a limb in a fall from a scaffold.Encyclopedia Treccani
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 30 (1984), entry by Aldo Rizzi.

Style

Not much is known about Cosattini's early career. One of his few remaining works is the altarpiece of the church of Charity of Udine. It is a painting of the Holy Family. The painting has been dated to 1659. The painting reflects a link to

and, to some extent,

Palma il Giovane Iacopo Negretti (1548/50 – 14 October 1628), best known as Jacopo or Giacomo Palma il Giovane or simply Palma Giovane ('Young Palma'), was an Italian painter from Venice and a notable exponent of the Venetian school. After Tintoretto's death ...

, leading to the conjecture that Cosattini had at some point been an apprenticeship of the two painters or that he had closely followed their work and adopted it into his own style. Cosattini's close stylistic ties with Padovanino are further demonstrated in the seven paintings, thought to be made by Cosattini, that cover the main hall of the Uccellis College of Udine.

References

1625 births 1699 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Emigrants from the Republic of Venice Artists from Udine Painters from the Republic of Venice Immigrants to the Holy Roman Empire {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub