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| Giovanni Odazzi after Annibale Carracci Domine, Quo Vadis? ca. 1690-95 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Odazzi Blessed Mafalda of Portugal saving the Monastery of Arouca from Fire ca. 1704-1725 oil on canvas Museu de Arte Sacra de Arouca, Portugal |
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| Giovanni Odazzi Design for Ceiling with Jupiter and Company of the Gods ca. 1718-30 drawing with watercolor Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
"Born in Rome of Lombardic extraction, Odazzi was a student of Giovanni Ferri and later of Giovanni Battista Gaulli, becoming his favorite collaborator and totally absorbing his style. Odazzi's earliest works thoroughly reflect the manner of his master. The artist later became more independent, but in the process lost much of the painterly merits of his prototype. He was one of the most active painters in Rome around 1700, especially as a painter of frescoes and altarpieces. His works are of quite uneven quality: 'one might praise him more if he had painted less' (Pascoli). . . . Despite virtuosity of ability, Odazzi did not succeed in attaining a passionate impetus or an impression of swirling action equivalent to Gaulli's achievement; his work is lacking in the compelling rhythm of linear movement and the magical fluidity of imagination."
– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)
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| Giovanni Odazzi Prophet Hosea 1718 fresco Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome |
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| Giovanni Odazzi Glory of St Stanislaus Kostka before 1731 fresco Chiesa di Sant' Andrea al Quirinale, Rome |
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| Giovanni Odazzi Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1720-30 oil on canvas Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Giovanni Odazzi Adoration of the Magi before 1731 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Odazzi Angels appearing before a Saint before 1731 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giovanni Odazzi Martyrdom of Apostles Philip and James the Less before 1704 drawing Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
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| Giovanni Odazzi Study for a Reliquary Sarcophagus before 1731 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Giovanni Odazzi St Gregory the Great interceding for Souls before 1731 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giovanni Odazzi Sheet of Studies, including two Lamentations before 1731 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giovanni Odazzi Sheet of Studies for a Parnassus Group before 1731 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Giovanni Odazzi Diana and Actaeon before 1731 oil on canvas private collection |