Giuseppe Bottani was an Italian

Italy

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 painter active in the 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.

He was born in Cremona

Cremona

Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...

. In Florence, he was a pupil of Vincenzo Meucci

Vincenzo Meucci

Vincenzo Meucci was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Born in Florence. He was a pupil first of the painter Sebastiano Galeotti, then of Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in Bologna....

 and il Puglieschi. He moved to Rome to work under Agostino Masucci

Agostino Masucci

Agostino Masucci was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.Born in Rome, he initially apprenticed with Andrea Procaccino, and then became a member of the studio of Carlo Maratta. He joined the Accademia di San Luca in 1724, and from 1736 to 1738, he was director or Principe...

, then he returned to Cremona after 1745. In 1769, he was named professor of painting and director of the Accademia di Belli Arti in Mantua

Mantua

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. He was known for painting landscapes in the style of Gaspard Poussin, and figures in the style of Maratta

Carlo Maratta

Carlo Maratta or Maratti was an Italian painter, active mostly in Rome, and known principally for his classicizing paintings executed in a Late Baroque Classical manner. Although he is part of the classical tradition stemming from Raphael, he was not exempt from the influence of Baroque painting...

. He painted a St. Paola taking leave of her Attendants as being in the church of SS. Cosmo e Damiano at Milan

Milan

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. One of his pupils was the Brescian Domenico Vantini

Domenico Vantini

Domenico Vantini was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, mainly active in Brescia and Mantua....

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