Nosadella biography of michael

Italian painter and engraver (1574–1623)

Francesco Brizio (1574–1623) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School, active in the early-Baroque.

It appears Cesare Malvasia confused him with il Nosadella or Giovanni Francesco Bezzi, who lived and was active only in the 16th century. Brizio was born in Bologna. He was initially a pupil of Bartolommeo Passarotti, but then became a pupil under Agostino and Ludovico Carracci. He helped paint, along with Lucio Massari and Leonello Spada, stories of Torquato Tasso's epic in the loggias of the Palazzo Bentivoglio. He also frescoed a ceiling for the signori Conti Boschetti in Modena and in the Oratorio della SS Trinità in Pieve di Cento. In Bologna, he painted a Coronation of the Madonna del Borgo for the church of San Petronio. He also frescoed in the cloister of San Michele in Bosco. His son Filippo became a pupil of Guido Reni. Another pupil was Domenico Ambrogi.

In engraving he was instruct

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Martha Dunkelman

Denise Budd & Lynn Catterson, eds., Italy for Sale: Alternative Objects, Alternative Markets, The Netherlands: Brill, 2023.

by Lynn Catterson, Martha Dunkelman, and Paola Cordera

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Italian Renaissance art, objects, and eve... more In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Italian Renaissance art, objects, and even the idea of Italy itself figured heavily in the increasingly dynamic international art market as well as in the eyes of the general public.  Much is known about the wealthy collectors, the powerful dealers and auction houses, and the institutions that have, by all accounts, built extraordinary collections.  But for every transaction there was a complex community of functionaries, many acting far behind the scenes and hence they are under-represented in the literature.  Several dealers could own an object that was tendered by just one of them, thereby muddying issues of p

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The Adoration of the Magi

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Title:The Adoration of the Magi

Artist:Nosadella (Giovanni Francesco Bezzi) (Italian, Bologna (?) ca. 1500–1571 Bologna)

Date:1500–1571

Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, with some traces of white gouache highlights (oxidized); the kneeling male figure at center reworked by the artist with pen and darker brown ink; a strip of paper added at the bottom and the design of the feet of the figure at lower left completed in brush and brown ink by an early hand, not that of the artist

Dimensions:Overall: 14 5/16 x 9 5/8in. (36.4 x 24.4cm), maximum, with completed strip of paper at bottom border and upper corners cropped

Classification:Drawings

Credit Line:Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917

Object Number:19.76.18

Inscription: On the added strip of paper at the bottom border, the recto is annotated in pen and brown ink at low