Antonio Bottazzi

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Antonio Bottazzi (died 1870) was an Italian painter from Lombardy who worked in the 19th century. Born in Cremona, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and was a contemporary of Pietro Bignami of Lodi. He painted portraits, historical scenes, and sacred subjects. His works include the Glory of the Virgin for Lodi Cathedral; the altarpiece The Assumption of the Virgin (1834) for the parish church of Roncadello; and a painting of a duel between Henry IV and Cremona’s Gonfaloniere Giovanni Baldesio, a subject with subversive echoes under Austrian rule. Bottazzi also frescoed the four Evangelists for the parish church of Castelleone.