{{Short description|Italian painter (1700–1776)}} '''Giuseppe Peroni''' (6 May 1710 – 22 September 1776) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period known for his religious paintings.<ref name=trec>{{cite encyclopedia |last = Fontana|first = Anna Chiara |date = 2015|title = PERONI, Giuseppe|url =https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-peroni_(Dizionario-Biografico) |encyclopedia = Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |location = Rome|publisher = Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana degli Italiani |access-date = 1 June 2025}}</ref> thumb|225px|''Self-portrait'', 1760
==Biography== He painted in the pre-eminent style of his time, the grand manner of Carlo Maratta. In Rome, he attended the Academy of France in Rome and the Accademia di San Luca, where he formed a friendship with the painter and caricaturist Pier Leone Ghezzi. In 1738, Giuseppe won a first prize for painting submitted to an exhibition at the Accademia di San Luca. He became a priest by 1744. Returning to Parma, he became active in teaching at the local Academy of Fine Arts (founded 1757) and painting mostly altarpieces for churches.<ref name=trec/> thumb|''Adoration of the Magi''
He painted a ''The Magdalene at the feet of Christ'' (1757) for the Certosa di Pavia,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.museo.certosadipavia.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/213/prima-cappella-a-sinistra|title=Prima cappella a sinistra|work=Museo Certosa di Pavia|date=23 January 2013|access-date=7 September 2022|archive-date=30 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430162342/http://www.museo.certosadipavia.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/213/prima-cappella-a-sinistra|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''St Camillo de Lellis'' for the church of Santa Maria della Visitazione (Chiesa della Madonnina) in Ferrara. He painted a ''Marriage of the Virgin'' for the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Popolo in Pontremoli. In Parma, he painted frescoes for the church of San Vitale, a ''St John the Baptist'' for the no longer extant church of San Cecilia,<ref>According to Italian Wikipedia entry, painting transferred to Ognissanti</ref> a canvas of ''St Francesco di Sales'' for the church of San Giuseppe, and a ''Martyrdom of San Bartolomeo'' for the church of San Bartolomeo. He painted two altarpieces for the church of San Vitale in Sala Baganza. He also painted frescoes in the Savoy castle of Casotto in Garessio.<ref>[http://www.garessio.net/casotto.htm Castello di Casotto<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070413224626/http://www.garessio.net/casotto.htm |date=2007-04-13 }}</ref> He also painted for churches in Turin.
In Parma, his pupils included Domenico Muzzi and Gaetano Callani. He died in Parma in 1676.
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