Pietro Paolo Bonzi (c.1573-died 1644)

• Also known as il Gobbo dei Carracci or il Gobbo dei Frutti.
• Was an Italian painter.
• He was born in Cortona, was part of the circle of Annibale Carracci and Domenichino.
• Trained under Giovanni Battista Viola in Rome.
• In Rome, he worked for Cardinal Pier Paolo Crescenzi.
• There are only two still-life paintings known with his signature.
• He also worked in fresco and in 1622-23 worked with Pietro da Cortona on the ceiling of a gallery in the Palazzo Mattei di Giove.
• Other commissions cited by Baglione include his work in the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi. 

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