Bartolomeo Guidobono
Painter, Savona 1654 - 1709.
Between 1674 and 1679 he completed his ecclesiastical studies in the seminary of Savona. He was called the "priest", he studied painting in Parma and Venice, left works in Savona and Genoa, then went to Turin under the Savoy family.
He began his painting activity by frescoing the chapel of the cross at the sanctuary of our lady mercy, he completed several studies in Parma and Venice, then returning to Genoa creating the frescoes in the red palace, the centurion palace and in some churches. He died in Turin at the age of 55.
In Savona, in addition to a street in the historic center, a lower secondary school is dedicated to him.
Taken from "Filing cabinet of illustrious men in Savona" by Ernesto Baldassarre and Renato Bruno with the kind concession of the Savonese Society of Homeland History
