Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi ("Fra Vittore Galgario") (1655–1743)

• Was an italian painter.
• He was born in Bergamo to an artist father, Domenico Ghislandi.
• Initially he entered the studio of Giacomo Cotta, then Bartolomeo Bianchi, and finally the studio of Sebastiano Bombelli in Venice of the 1690s.
• He also reported trained with the German portrait artist Salomon Adler in Milan.

• In 1702, he entered the religious life in the Order of the Minims of the Monastery of Galgario, in Bergamo.

• He was elected a member of the Milanese Accademia Clementina in 1717. 

• Among his pupils were Paolo Bonomino, Cesare Femi, and Pietro Gualdi.

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