Giuseppe Ghislandi, later Vittore Ghislandi, known as Fra' Galgario, was born in Bergamo in 1655. His training took place in his hometown under the Milanese engraver Giacomo Cotta, active in the city as a painter of sacred subjects, under the guidance of Bartolomeo Bianchini Furthermore, with the exception of Giovanni Battista Moroni, those who may have influenced him in the first phase were the works of Carlo Ceresa and the still lifes of Evaristo Baschenis. Read the full biography
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Giuseppe Ghislandi, later Vittore Ghislandi, known as Fra' Galgario, was born in Bergamo in 1655. His training took place in his hometown under the Milanese engraver Giacomo Cotta, active in the city as a painter of sacred subjects, under the guidance of Bartolomeo Bianchini Furthermore, with the exception of Giovanni Battista Moroni, those who may have influenced him in the first phase were the works of Carlo Ceresa and the still lifes of Evaristo Baschenis. The name of Vittore remained in the city until 1688, dedicated to the study of the work of Titian and Paolo Veronese, this year the portrait of Domenico Ghislandi can be dated. Returning to Bergamo, he moved again to Venice around 1690, where, as a pupil and collaborator of Sebastiano Bombelli, he came into contact with the portraitist Nicolò Cassana Cassana), the Flemish Jan de Kerkchoven known as Giacomo da Castello and the bohemian portraitist Johann Kupezky. Portrait of Bartolomeo Manganoni around 1695, preserved in the Museum of Art and History of Narbonne and portraits of Venetian nobles from the last years of the 17th century, now in a private collection, from this period, Gagario, in the Bergamo area.
