Gioacchino Pizzoli (1651 in Bologna – 1733) was an Italian painter, active as a history and figure painter during the Baroque period.
Biography He was trained in Bologna, Papal States and married the painter Maria Oriana Galli da Bibbiena (1656–1749), the daughter of Giovanni Maria of the Galli da Bibiena family. Their son Domenico Pizzoli (1687–1720) was also a painter. A daughter joined a monastery in Reggio-Emilia.Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico ... By Giuseppe Campori, page 378.
From 1675 to 1677, along with his master, the quadratura painter Angelo Michele Colonna, he painted the Sala del Consiglio Comunale (once the Gallery of the Senate) of the Palazzo D'Accursio.Frescoes in Sala del Consiglio Comunale , Bologna, in site from municipality, text by Carla Bernardini and Gilberta Franzoni. He also helped fresco the Oratory of Santa Maria del Borgo in Bologna.Santa Maria del Borgo Oratory frescoes by Fondazione Federico Zeri. Also in 1700, in Bologna, Pizzoli decorated the Illyrian-Hungarian College (, now the Venturoli College, ) with frescoes on the history of Croatia and Hungary.Historical archive of University of Bologna , entry on photographs of Collegio Artistico Venturoli.
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Reading
Ingrid Sjöström, Quadratura. Studies in Italian Ceiling Paintings, Stockholm, Almqvist och Wiksell, 1978.