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"Tiepolo Giovanni Battista"

500,-

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, born in Palmanova near Venice in 1762, began his studies in Brescia and later in 1777 at the Venetian Academy, where he was a pupil of Anton Maria Zanetti, Constantino Cedini and the scenographer and vedutista Antonio Maurei. The major influences on his works were, however, the paintings of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Marco Ricci and Francesco Guardi. Venice, because of its settecento tradition, had strongly resisted Neoclassicism. After traveling in northern Italy, Bison resided in Trieste from about 1800 to 1831, where he acquired certain neoclassical tendencies and became popular as a decorative painter. Later, Romantic traits emerged in his paintings. He was nominated an associate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, but moved to Milan in 1831, which was at that time dominated by the Romantic style. In Milan, he worked as a vedutista in a vein similar to that of Migliara, though he retained a sense of Venetian fantasy and light. Bison was a prolific draughtsman who worked mainly in a decorative, eighteenth century style with a decidedly Venetian flavor. He was a transitional artist who bridged the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (Roberta Olson, "Italian Drawings 1780-1890". Indiana University Press. London, p.58). He died in Milan in 1844.