Giovanni Giuseppe Cosattini

[1] It is unclear from whom Cosattini gained his training; he became in 1654 a canon in Aquilea, and thus had opportunities to be exposed to Venetian painters.

He returned to Udine from Vienna after breaking a limb in a fall from a scaffold.

The painting reflects a link to Padovanino and, to some extent, Palma il Giovane, leading to the conjecture that Cosattini had at some point been an apprenticeship of the two painters or that he had closely followed their work and adopted it into his own style.

Cosattini's close stylistic ties with Padovanino are further demonstrated in the seven paintings, thought to be made by Cosattini, that cover the main hall of the Uccellis College of Udine.

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