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| Giuseppe Bottani Incredulity of St Thomas before 1784 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Portait of Caterina Valadier with her Children 1766 oil on canvas Museo di Roma a Palazzo Braschi |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Hagar and the Angel ca. 1776 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Departure of St Paula and St Eustochium for the Holy Land 1740 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Departure of St Paula and St Eustochium for the Holy Land 1740 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Athena revealing Ithaca to Ulysses ca. 1775 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Athena transforming Ulysses into a Beggar ca. 1775 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Malaspina, Pavia |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Preaching of St Vincent Ferrer ca. 1780 oil on canvas Palazzo Ducale, Mantua |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Preaching of St Vincent Ferrer (detail) ca. 1780 oil on canvas Palazzo Ducale, Mantua |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Study for Portrait of a Cardinal ca. 1753-63 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Studies of Heads for St Aloysius Gonzaga and St Stanislaus Kostka adoring the Madonna and Child ca. 1750-65 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Sheet of Studies ca. 1760 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Académie ca. 1757 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Académie ca. 1760-70 drawing Philadelphia Museum of Art |
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| Giuseppe Bottani Académie ca. 1760 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
"Giuseppe Bottani was born at Cremona in 1717, and studied first at Florence under Meucci and Puglieschi, and in 1740, at Rome, under Agostino Masucci. He returned in 1745, and established a school of painting at Cremona, and also gained considerable reputation for painting landscapes, in the style of Gaspard Poussin [Gaspard Dughet], into which he introduced figures in the pleasing manner of Carlo Maratti. In 1769 he was made director of the Academy at Mantua."
– Michael Bryan, Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (London: George Bell and Sons, 1886)