Giuseppe Bonati

Giuseppe Bonati (1635 – 12 March 1681) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and Ferrara.

He initially trained as a pupil of Francesco Costanzo Cattaneo and Leonello Bononi.

Under the patronage of cardinal Carlo Pio di Savoia, in 1658 he was sent to Bologna to train with Guercino.

In Rome he worked in many churches, including Santa Croce in Gerusalemme (Saint Bernard miraculously extracts a tooth from relics of Saint Caesarius of Terracina, the first autel on the left side) and Santa Maria in Vallicella.

In the Museo Capitolino are paintings of Rinaldo leaves Armida as well as Sisera and Jael.