Bonesi, Giovanni Girolamo

Bonesi, Giovanni Girolamo, a Bolognese painter, was born in 1653. and studied under Gioviani. He painted pictures for the churches aid public edifices of Bologna. His best works are St. Francis of Sales Kneeling before the Virgin, in San Marino; St. Thomas of Villanova giving Alms to the Poor, in San Biagio; The Virgin and Infant, with Mary Magdalene and St. Ugo, at the Certosa. He died in 1725. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.