Agostino Bonisoli
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Agostino Bonisoli was an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 painter of the Baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period, active mainly in Cremona
Cremona
Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...

. He was the pupil of the slightly older painter Giovanni Battista Tortirole
Giovanni Battista Tortirole
Giovanni Battista Tortiroli was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Cremona. He was a pupil of Sebastiano Mainardi, and worked both in Rome and in Naples. He died at the age of thirty....

, and later working with Luigi Miradoro. He painted a Life of St. Anthony for the church of San Francesco in Cremona. He painted in the style of Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi...

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