Clemente Bocciardo

He was born in Genoa in 1620, he was a pupil of Bernardo Strozzi, but he left his city very young to complete his education, together with Castiglione, first in Rome then in Florence.

In Genoa, where he painted, according to Ratti, a Last Supper for the oratory of St. Germano (later in Santa Maria della Pietà) and a Corpus Domini for the church of St. Andrea, nothing remains of his work.

One of the first works painted in Pisa was St. Carlo Borromeo in St. Frediano, and Madonna and Saints in the church of St. Matteo.

Dispersed are two paintings with the Saints Peter and Paul, who were still in the cathedral in 1912 over the little porticoes leading to the terrace of the relics, a canvas with St. Benedetto on the high altar of the church of the same name (now deconsecrated), St. Sebastiano in Charterhouse, an Immaculate Conception in the church of the Santa Croce in Fossabanda.

In fact, he spent a short time in Florence, where the competition was still strong, before ending up settling permanently in Pisa, where he acquired fame and important commissions.