Giuseppe Bernardino Bison
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (16 June 1762 – 24 August 1844) was an itinerant Italian painter of
Biography
He was born in
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 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
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,
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
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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TheArsenalein Venice
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The Hermits of Thebes
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Capriccio of Padua
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Horsewomen at a Cottage
References
- ^ a b c d Brief biography from the Dizionario biografico degli Italiani - Volume 10 (1968) @ Treccani.
- ^ a b c d Brief biography by Daniele D'Anza @ Arte Ricerca (blocked link)
- ^ "Drawing (Italy)". Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
- ^ "Three Flying Putti (x1974-21)". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
- ^ "Exchange: Design for a Painted Ceiling Decoration". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
- ^ "Domestic Scene with Peasants and a Cat". www.clarkart.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
- ^ "Fantastic Landscape with a Tower". www.dia.org. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
- ^ "Female Figure Riding a Dolphin; Verso: Study of Seated, Reclining Female and Standing Figure". allenartcollection.oberlin.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
- ^ Harvard. "From the Harvard Art Museums' collections Hero Crowned with Laurel Riding a Horse". harvardartmuseums.org. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Apollo and the Muses » Norton Simon Museum". www.nortonsimon.org. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
- ^ ""Landscape with a Watermill"".
- ^ "drawing | British Museum". The British Museum. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
Further reading
- Giuseppe Bergamini, Fabrizio Magani and Giuseppe Pavanello; Giuseppe Bernardino Bison: pittore e disegnatore, (Exhibition catalog, 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