Giuseppe Orsoni (1691–1755) was an Italian painter and

scenic designer Scenic may refer to: * Scenic design * Scenic painting * Scenic overlook * Scenic railroad (disambiguation) * Scenic route * Scenic, South Dakota, United States * Scenic (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse Aviation * Airwave Scenic, an Austr ...

of the

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

period, active in Northern Italy. He first studied under Domenico Maria Viani, then studied

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 ...

under Pompeo Aldrovandini. He was active as a scenic designer in Genoa, Lucca, Turin, and Brescia. He worked with

Stefano Orlandi Stefano Orlandi (1681 – 29 July 1760) was an Italian people, Italian painter, active mainly in Bologna in the architectural perspective painting. He is known for painting fanciful architectural canvases, known as Capriccio (art), Capricci. ...

in Bologna, and with

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active as a painter of perspective and theatrical decorations at Bologna and Genoa Genoa ( ; ; ) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria, and the ...

. He was made a professor of the

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 ...

.Annali della città di Bologna dalle sua origine al 1796
by Salvatore Muzzi; Bologna, 1846, Volume 8, page 743.

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1691 births 1755 deaths 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Italian scenic designers 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub