Giuseppe Bazzani: A Painter Caught Between Tradition and Innovation Giuseppe Bazzani (1690-1769) stands as a pivotal figure in the Rococo artistic landscape of Mantua, Italy—a city renowned for its patronage of the arts during the eighteenth century. Born into a family of goldsmiths, Bazzani’s early life was shaped by exposure to craftsmanship and aesthetic sensibilities that would profoundly inform his own artistic endeavors. He comm…