Giacomo Boni (painter)
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Giacomo Boni (28 April, 1688-1766) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa.
He was born in Bologna, and became a pupil of Marcantonio Franceschini, and later of the painter Carlo Cignani in Forlì. He returned and followed Franceschini to Genoa, then Crema, Piacenza, Lavino, Parma, and then Rome. 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 Tomasso Aldrovandini in the Palazzo Durazzo. He painted the chorus of San Pancrazio for the nobleman Pallavicini. He also painted in the Palazzo Mari and in many others; and frescoed the vault of the oratory of Santa Maria della Costa, at San Remo. 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 Publico [1]
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- Soprani, Raffaello (1769). in Carlo Giuseppe Ratti: Delle vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti genovesi; Tomo secundo scritto da Carlo Giuseppe Ratti. Stamperia Casamara in Genoa, dalle Cinque Lampadi, con licenza de Superiori; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Feb 2, 2007, pages 374-384.
- ^ * Lanzi, Luigi (1847). in Thomas Roscoe (translator): History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Volume III). London; Original from Oxford University, Digitized January, 2007: Henry G. Bohn, page 285.
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