Giuseppe Tortelli

Place: Brescia

Born: 1662

Biography:

Giuseppe Tortelli was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period, active in Brescia. He received a broad education in writing and philosophy. He traveled to Naples to observe masters there, then to Venice. In 1708, he painted two large canvases, depicting the Assumption of Mary and Saints Faustino and Giovita in Adoration of the Cross for the Duomo Vecchio, but now in Duomo Nuovo of Brescia. He painted a series of eight Saints for the Oratory of the Disciplini, Ostiano, province of Cremona. Giuseppe Zola was one of his pupils.