Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli

Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli (17 April 1604 12 July 1656) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Brescia.

He was born in Offanengo, near Crema, and is mentioned as a mentor of Evaristo Baschenis.[1] Among his works are a Nativity altarpiece for the sanctuary of Nostra Signora della Brughiera in Bulliana in the province of Biella. He also painted two altarpieces, a Crucifixion and a Circumcision (attributed) for the Sanctuary della Madonna del Pianto in Ono Degno, near Pertica Bassa.[2] He painted history scenes into quadratura by Domenico Ghislandi for the Palazzo Terzi[3] as well as for the Palazzo Moroni (1649–1654) in Bergamo.[4] Barbello frescoed Glory of the Magdalen and scenes from her life in the presbytery and apse for the church of Santa Maria Maddalena, Cremona.

Bryan comments on a G.G. Barbella born in 1590 in Cremona. He is almost certainly the same artist. He painted an altarpiece of San Lazzaro for the church of that name in Bergamo.[5] One of his pupils was Giovanni Battista Botticchio.[6]

References

  1. Baschenis Still Lifes: A Stirring Silent Opera by Souren Melikian International Herald Tribune; Saturday, February 17, 2001.
  2. Comune di pertica bassa
  3. Gian Giacomo Barbelli, dipinti e disegni (1976) Marcel Roethlisberger. The Art Bulletin 1976 58(4): pages 624-5.
  4. Palazzo Moroni.
  5. Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 79.
  6. Pinacoteca Orzi Nuovi, biography of Botttichio.


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