Giacomo Boni was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the late-Baroque

Baroque

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 period, active mainly in Genoa

Genoa

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He was born in Bologna

Bologna

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, and became a pupil of Marcantonio Franceschini

Marcantonio Franceschini

Marcantonio Franceschini , was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in his native Bologna. He was the father and teacher of Giacomo Franceschini.-Biography :...

, and later of the painter Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani

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 in Forlì

Forlì

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. He returned and followed Franceschini to Genoa, then Crema

Crema, Italy

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, Piacenza

Piacenza

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, Lavino, Parma

Parma

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, and then Rome

Rome

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. He painted canvases for chapels in the Chiesa di San Filippo Neri in Genoa, and frescoes for their oratory. In Crema, he painted for the Chiesa del Carmine. In Piacenza, he painted in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo. He returned to Genoa in 1726, where he painted alongside Tommaso Aldrovandini in the Palazzo Durazzo. He painted the chorus of San Pancrazio for the nobleman Pallavicini

Pallavicini

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. He also painted in the Palazzo Mari and in many others; and frescoed the vault of the oratory of Santa Maria della Costa, at Sanremo

Sanremo

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. In a chapel of San Giovanni in Parma he painted alongside Giuseppe Carpi.

Lanzi speaks of Jacopo Boni working as an assistant to Franceschini in decorating the great hall of the Palazzo Pubblico