Giovanni Battista Barbieri Artwork valuations, appraisals and auction estimates

The Salodian Gian Battista Barbieri (1858-1926) is one of the greatest artists of the nineteenth-twentieth century in Brescia, animated by rare sensitivity. Belonging to a wealthy family, the young Gian Battista tackled painting with an amateur spirit, and then honed his natural skills at the school of Faustino Joli. Read the full biography

The Salodian Gian Battista Barbieri (1858-1926) is one of the greatest artists of the nineteenth-twentieth century in Brescia, animated by rare sensitivity. Belonging to a wealthy family, the young Gian Battista tackled painting with an amateur spirit, and then honed his natural skills at the school of Faustino Joli. He travels often: in Florence he frequents Achille Glisenti, in Rome Modesto Faustini. Eighteen years old, he enlisted in the territorial militia; upon leaving he tries to go abroad to Buenos Aires, where he meets Faustini again, busy with the ornamentation of the Pacheco chapel. The adverse events of the family, involved in the deficient management of Solfatare, forced Barbieri to return to Italy. He was first in Syracuse, then in Cremona and Brescia, where he taught at the Moretto School. Finally, the 1920s saw him definitively reunited with his native Salò.