Giuseppe Bernardino Bison Biography
Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (Palmanova, 16 June 1762 – Milan, 24 August 1844) was an Italian painter. After moving with his family to Brescia, he studied drawing with the painter Gerolamo Romani; and then moved, again with his family, to Venice. In the lagoon city, he studies with the figure professor Costantino Sedini (Cedini). In Venice he became friends with the architect Giannantonio Selva, so much so that he followed him to Ferrara in 1787 and received the task of decorating Palazzo Bottoni. In the same year Giuseppe Bernardino Bison is also documented in Padua following the scenographer Antonio Mauro, from whom he borrowed his interest in the classical architecture painted by Antonio Visentini and with whom he collaborated on the creation of the theater of the Marquises Obizzi who in 1790 commissioned him some decorations for the Catajo castle in Battaglia Terme, near Padua. Also in Padua, the decoration of Palazzo Maffetti-Manzoni is documented in 1792 in which the adherence to a classicist repertoire contaminated by eighteenth-century reminiscences was now established and, after 1793, he was operational in the Treviso area, where he frescoed the vault of the Church of Sant'Andrea in Venegazzù, the oratory of Villa Bragadin in Ceggia and the decorations in the villas, Raspi di Lancenigo and Spineda in Breda di Piave. Between 1798 and 1800 he collaborated with Selva on the decorations in the works he designed or renovated: in the Casino Soderini in Treviso, where he painted the Chariot of the Sun, and subsequently in Venice with the frescoes in Palazzo Dolfin Manin.
