Giuseppe Borsato

[2] From 1791 to 1792, Borsato studied perspective with Agostino Mengozzi Colonna at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

He painted interiors of churches, sometimes in the manner of Canaletto, but was also influenced by his contemporary, Vincenzo Chilone.

Among his best known decorative works are those at St Mark's Basilica and Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.

In 1810 he became the official set designer of the Teatro La Fenice, a position he held for ten years.

He also painted frescoes in the Palazzo Zabarella during its renovation in 1818, alongside Francesco Hayez and Giovanni Carlo Bevilacqua.