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Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (16 June 1762 – 24 August 1844) was an itinerant Italian painter of frescoes, landscapes, vedute, capriccios and some religious works.

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison; portrait by Giuseppe Tominz (1830)

Biography

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He was born in Palmanova. When he was still a boy, his family moved to Brescia, where he saw the works of Girolamo Romani and decided to become a painter. Later, his family moved again, to Venice, where he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and worked with Costantino Cedini.[1] While there, he became friends with the architect Gian Antonio Selva, and went with him to Ferrara in 1787 to help decorate the Palazzo Bottoni.[2]

Shortly after, he was in Padua, working as a set designer for the Obizzi family and, in 1790, was commissioned to do decorations for the Castello del Catajo.[1] Two years later, he did similar work at the Palazzo Maffetti-Manzoni, then moved to Treviso, where he did frescoes on the ceiling of the Church of Saint Andrew in Volpago del Montello, the oratory of the Villa Bragadin in Ceggia and secular decorations for several villas in Lancenigo [it] and Breda di Piave. From 1798 to 1800, he collaborated with Selva on decorations at the Palazzo Dolfin Manin in Venice.[2]

Moving on to Trieste, he collaborated with Matteo Pertsch and the sculptor Antonio Bosa (1780–1845) to provide decorations for the Palazzo Carciotti [it] and the stock exchange building.[2] In 1811, he was in Zara, working at the Palazzo del Governatore. This was followed by decorative work (now lost) at the theaters in Vipacco and Gorizia.[1]

At this time, he began to take advantage of a growing market for paintings in the homes of well-to-do non-aristocrats and, working in conjunction with a local art dealer named Tosoni, produced a wide variety of landscapes, vedute and other genres to satisfy local tastes.[1] His canvases were expensive, but also very large.

In 1831, despite his successes in Trieste, he began wandering again, returning briefly to Brescia, then settling in Milan where he took some smaller commissions, but was not very successful and died poor.[2]

Collections

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Bison's work is held in the permanent collections of several museums, including the Cooper Hewitt,[3] the Princeton University Art Museum,[4] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,[5] the Clark Art Institute,[6] the Detroit Institute of Arts,[7] the Allen Memorial Art Museum,[8] the Harvard Art Museums,[9] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[10] the Norton Simon Museum,[11] the Blanton Museum of Art,[12] and the British Museum.[13]

Selected paintings

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Brief biography from the Dizionario biografico degli Italiani - Volume 10 (1968) @ Treccani.
  2. ^ a b c d Brief biography by Daniele D'Anza @ Arte Ricerca (blocked link)
  3. ^ "Drawing (Italy)". Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  4. ^ "Three Flying Putti (x1974-21)". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  5. ^ "Exchange: Design for a Painted Ceiling Decoration". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  6. ^ "Domestic Scene with Peasants and a Cat". www.clarkart.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  7. ^ "Fantastic Landscape with a Tower". www.dia.org. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  8. ^ "Female Figure Riding a Dolphin; Verso: Study of Seated, Reclining Female and Standing Figure". allenartcollection.oberlin.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  9. ^ Harvard. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Hero Crowned with Laurel Riding a Horse". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  10. ^ "Giuseppe Bernardino Bison | The Nativity of Christ, with Shepherds and Kings in Adoration | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  11. ^ "Apollo and the Muses » Norton Simon Museum". www.nortonsimon.org. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  12. ^ ""Landscape with a Watermill"".
  13. ^ "drawing | British Museum". The British Museum. Retrieved 2021-07-02.

Further reading

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  • Giuseppe Bergamini, Fabrizio Magani and Giuseppe Pavanello; Giuseppe Bernardino Bison: pittore e disegnatore, (Exhibition catalog, Udine, 1997-1998), Skira, 1997 ISBN 88-8118-283-1
  • Franca Pellegrini; Da Tintoretto a Bison: disegni del Museo d'Arte secoli XVI -XVIII, Il Poligrafo, 2005 ISBN 88-7115-387-1
  • Giuseppe Pavanello, Alberto Craievich and Daniele D'Anza; Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, Volume 14 of Collana d'arte della Fondazione CRTrieste, 2012 ISBN 88-90768-70-3
  • Daniele D'Anza; Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, un pittore dalla fantasia inesauribile nella Trieste neoclassica, Marsilio, 2013 ISBN 978-88-317-1689-5
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