Giovanni Girolamo Bonesi (1653 - 1725) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Year 1725 ( MDCCXXV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc He was born in Bologna. Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy He was the pupil of the painter Giovanni Maria Viani, but followed the style of Carlo Cignani. Giovanni Maria Viani (1636-1700 was an Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Bologna. Carlo Cignani ( May 15, 1628 - September 6, 1719) was an Italian painter of the Bolognese school active in the He painted a St. Francis of Sales kneeling before the Virgin for the church of San Marino; a St. Thomas of Villanova giving Alms to the Poor for the church of San Biagio; and a Virgin and Infant Christ, with Mary Magdalene and St. Hugo for the Certosa in Bologna.