Giuseppe Tortelli

Giuseppe Tortelli (1662- circa 1738) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period, active in Brescia.

In 1709, he lost a commission to Andrea Celesti to paint for the Duomo of Verolanuova.

He painted three scenes of the Passion of Christ (1712) for a via cruces in the chapel of the Santissimi Sacramento of Sant'Agata in Brescia; a Madonna con St Alberto Carmelitano (1721) for the church of the Carmine; a St Matthew and the Angel (1726) for Santa Maria della Carità ; an altarpiece of Christ appears to Saints Pellegrino Laziosi, and Giuliano Confalonieri (1735) for Sant'Alessandro ; an altarpiece depicting Santi Nicola da Bari, Sebastiano, e Rocco (1737) for the sacristy of the parish of Orzivecchi; an altarpiece of Martyrdon of St Erasmus (1738) for San Zeno al Foro; and a Holy Trinity (1738) for San Francesco.

[1] In Brescia in the church of San Pietro in Oliveto, the altarpiece in the second altar on the left, depicting St John of the Cross in Contemplation, is attributed to him.

[2] he painted a series of eight Saints for the Oratory of the Disciplini, Ostiano, province of Cremona.