Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole (1654 – 1719) 

• Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole was an Italian painter and engraver from Bologna.
• His father, Giovanni Antonio Maria, also called Mochino de' Paesi due to his ambidextrous dexterity, was a landscape painter.

• Giovanni Gioseffo first apprenticed with Domenico Maria Canuti.

• In 1672 he entered the Roman studio of Lorenzo Pasinelli.

• Dal Sole soon became his master’s favourite and executed two fine engravings after Pasinelli’s compositions.

• Through his friendship with Conte Alessandro Fava (recorded on a drawing by dal Sole of a Standing Peasant, 1672; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art) dal Sole had the chance to study the frescoes by the Carracci in the Palazzo Fava. 

• Among his many pupils were Felice Torelli, Lucia Casalini, Antonio Beduzzi, Francesco Monti, Bastiano Galleoti, Gioseffo Vitali, Donato Creti, Giovanni Battista Grati, of Bologna Cesare Mazzoni, Bernardino Norsini, Giacomo Pavia, Antonio Lunghi, Carlo Salis, Francesco Pavona, Dionigi Donnini, Francesco Comi, and Jacopo Saeta.

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