Domenico Guidobono

1668 – 1746

Italian painter, brother of Bartolomeo Guidobono. When he was baptized in the church of St. John the Baptist in Savona, his godfather was the Genovese painter Domenico Piola, one of the eminent members of the Piola family, which operated a large workshop known as the 'Casa Piola'. It is likely therefore that in addition to being trained by his father, Domenico Guidobono also benefited from training in the Casa Piola. He travelled with his elder brother in the early 1680s to Turin where they worked during the years 1684-85 on frescoes for the Monastery of Casanova at Carmagnola, a small town near Turin. This was likely the first independent commission undertaken by the Guidobono brothers. During this period Domenico also executed some canvases with biblical subjects, which are not documented, but have been attributed to him on stylistic grounds such as the Susanna and the Elders now in the Louvre. In subsequent years the brothers split their time between the Monastery in Casanova and Turin. In 1709 he worked on the frescoes in the presbytery of Turin Cathedral and received commissions over a period of about twenty years in the Palazzo Madama, Turin. He died in 1746 in Naples, where, already elderly, he had moved for some time to work.

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