Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (10 December 1654 – 22 July 1719) was an Italian

Italy

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 painter and engraver from Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

, active in the late-Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period.

His father, Giovanni Antonio Maria, was a landscape painter who trained with Francesco Albani

Francesco Albani

Francesco Albani or Albano was an Italian Baroque painter.-Early years in Bologna:Born 1578 in Bologna, his father was a silk merchant who intended to instruct his son in the same trade; but by age twelve, Albani became an apprentice under the competent mannerist painter Denis Calvaert, where he...

. Giovanni Gioseffo first apprenticed with Domenico Maria Canuti

Domenico Maria Canuti

Domenico Maria Canuti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Rome.Born in Bologna, Canuti first trained in that city under Guido Reni, then with Guercino. He painted many ceiling and wall frescoes...

, and then in 1672; he entered the Roman studio of Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli

Lorenzo Pasinelli was an Italian painter from Bologna of the Baroque period, who trained in the studio of Simone Cantarini....

. He painted frescoes in the cupola of Santa Maria dei Poveri in Bologna, and an altarpiece of the Trinity (1700) for the chiesa del Suffragio in Imola

Imola

thumb|250px|The Cathedral of Imola.Imola is a town and comune in the province of Bologna, located on the Santerno river, in the Emilia-Romagna region of north-central Italy...

. He is said to have collaborated with Giuseppe Maria Crespi.
He was one of the painters who contributed to painting mythologic scenes for the renowned Aenid Gallery of the Palazzo Buonaccorsi

Palazzo Buonaccorsi

The Palazzo Buonaccorsi is a palace in Macerata, Marche, Italy. It was built in 1700-1720 for Count Raimondo Buonaccorsi and his son, Cardinal Simone Buonaccorsi, using designs by Giovanni Battista Contini...

 in Macerata

Macerata

Macerata is a city and comune in central Italy, the capital of the province of Macerata in the Marche region.The historical city center is located on a hill between the Chienti and Potenza rivers. It consisted of the Picenes city named Ricina, then, after the romanization, Recina and Helvia Recina...

; a decoration that employed many of the premier artists of his day. Two paintings, Diana with cupids and Ecstasy of the Magdalen are found in the Palazzo Spalletti-Trivelli in Bologna. There is a Salome with the St John the Baptist in the Fitzwilliam Museum attributed to Giovanni Gioseffo.He also frescoed the Palazzo Mansi in Lucca

Lucca

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 with a Judgement of Paris.

Among his many pupils were Felice Torelli

Felice Torelli

Felice Torelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque style, active mainly in Bologna.He was born to a family of artists in Verona, including his brother, Giuseppe Torelli, a noted violinist and composer of concerti. Both his son, Stefano Torelli, and his wife, Lucia Casalini , were painters. His...

, Lucia Casalini (Torelli's wife), Antonio Beduzzi

Antonio Beduzzi

Antonio Maria Nicolao Beduzzi was an Austrian-Italian theater engineer, painter, and architect who flourished in Vienna at the turn of the 17th century....

, Francesco Monti (Bologna)

Francesco Monti (Bologna)

Francesco Monti was an Italian painter, of the late-Baroque.Born in Bologna, and first a pupil of Sigismondo Caula in Modena , then of Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna. He worked in Brescia, starting in 1738, painting frescoes on the vault of the church of Santa Maria della Pace. In 1741 he...

, Gioseffo Vitali

Gioseffo Vitali

Gioseffo Vitali was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born in Bologna. He trained under Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole. In Bologna, he painted an Annunciation for the church of Sant' Antonio; a S. Petronio for SS. Sebastiano e Rocco; and a Martyrdom of St. Cecilia in the church of...

, Donato Creti

Donato Creti

Donato Creti was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna.Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal...

, Giovanni Batista Grati, Cesare Mazzoni, Francesco Pavona, and Francesco Comi (il Fornaretto). He also played some of the mentorship to a pupil of Pasinelli and Sirani (though unclear father or daughter Elisabetta

Elisabetta Sirani

Elisabetta Sirani was an Italian Baroque painter whose father was the painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani of the School of Bologna-Biography:...

), Teresa Muratori Scannabecchi.