Viviano Codazzi (1606-1670)
• Was an Italian architectural painter.
• Viviano Codazzi was born in Valsassina near Bergamo around 1604.
• Viviano most likely trained in Rome.
• He had moved by 1633 to Naples where he worked on commissions at the Certosa di San Martino resulting from his connections with his fellow Bergamasque Cosimo Fanzago.
• He was active during the Baroque period.
• He is known for his architectural paintings, capricci, compositions with ruins, and some vedute.
• He worked in Naples and Rome.
• He is known in older sources as Viviano Codagora or il Codagora.
• The artist married on 3 May 1636 Candida Miranda, from Naples.
• The couple had seven children of whom Niccolò and Antonio became painters.
• Codazzi had several close followers, including Ascanio Luciano and Andrea di Michele in Naples, his son Niccolò Codazzi, Vicente Giner, and Domenico Roberti.
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Viviano Codazzi, Perspectival view of a roman Amphitheatre, 1638
Original, El Prado, Madrid. Visited in 2018.
Viviano Codazzi, Perspectival view of a roman Amphitheatre, 1638
Viviano Codazzi, Perspectival view of a roman Amphitheatre, 1638
Viviano Codazzi and Domenico Gargiulo, The Men`s Bath, c. 1645
Original, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford. Visited in 2019.
Viviano Codazzi and Domenico Gargiulo, The Men`s Bath, c. 1645
Viviano Codazzi and Domenico Gargiulo, The Nativity of Christ Set in the Entrance of the Royal Palace of Naples,hAdoration of the Shepherds, c. 1638
Original, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Visited in 2019.
Viviano Codazzi and Domenico Gargiulo, The Nativity of Christ Set in the Entrance of the Royal Palace of Naples,hAdoration of the Shepherds, c. 1638
Viviano Codazzi and Domenico Gargiulo, Courtyard of an Inn with Classical Ruins, ca.1621-1647
Original, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. Visited in 2021. 
Viviano Codazzi and Domenico Gargiulo, Courtyard of an Inn with Classical Ruins, ca.1621-1647
