Giuseppe Marchesi Detto Il Sansone Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

Giuseppe Marchesi was born in Bologna in 1699, known as Sansone due to his massive build, he was first a pupil of Aureliano Milani from whom he borrowed the great Carracesque lesson, then of Marcantonio Franceschini who passed on to him the moderate rococo taste.

The first works can be traced back to 1725 for the large hall of the Bertalotti house in Bologna and subsequently the Four Seasons. A decade later we include the paintings for Vittorio Amedeo of Savoy, in these works we can see the abandonment of classicism in favor of an almost mannerist component. Read the full biography

Giuseppe Marchesi Detto Il Sansone Biography

Giuseppe Marchesi was born in Bologna in 1699, known as Sansone due to his massive build, he was first a pupil of Aureliano Milani from whom he borrowed the great Carracesque lesson, then of Marcantonio Franceschini who passed on to him the moderate rococo taste.

The first works can be traced back to 1725 for the large hall of the Bertalotti house in Bologna and subsequently the Four Seasons. A decade later we include the paintings for Vittorio Amedeo of Savoy, in these works we can see the abandonment of classicism in favor of an almost mannerist component. In the 1930s he executed a series of altarpieces for some churches in the Emilian province and the Papal State. In the same years the first major public decoration began for the apse and vault of the Church of the Madonna di Galliera in Bologna.

The fame he achieved is also evident in the number of private commissions, where he tried his hand at room painting: profane, Arcadian or allegorical subjects, through which he could give free rein to neo-manneristic painting.

In 1752 he was appointed prince of the Clementine Academy. He died in Bologna in 1771.