Giuseppe Pedretti

Giuseppe Pedretti (26 February 1697 – 27 May 1778)[1] was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, active mainly in Bologna.

[2] Born in Bologna, at the age of 15, he began his training, despite the opposition of his family, under Carlo Antonio Rambaldi.

[3] In 1729, he moved for three years to Poland, to paint for the House of Rzewuski in Lviv, where he completed a number of portraits and frescoes on sacred subjects for the Carmelite Church.

After a spell in Mantua, Sabbioneta, and Viadana, between 1726 and 1727, he was commissioned by Antonio Cavazza to paint Joseph retrieves the Silver Cup from Benjamin's Bag (now in Credito Romagnolo, Palazzo Magnani, Bologna).

[4] Pedretti painted lunettes in the nave for the church of Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna.