Giulio Benso, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian painter (1592-1668)
Date of Birth: 30-Oct-1592
Place of Birth: Pieve di Teco, Liguria, Italy
Date of Death: 06-Nov-1668
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Giulio Benso
- Giulio Benso (30 October 1592 – 1668) was a Genovese painter of the early Baroque.
- He is known as one of the followers of the style of Luca Cambiasi. Benso was born in Pieve di Teco.
- Initially under the patronage of Giovanni Carl Doria, he met Giulio Cesare Procaccini and was encouraged to study in the Genovese Accademia del Nudo.
- Afterwards, he was apprenticed to Giovanni Battista Paggi.
- Apart from his work in Liguria, he decorated the Palazzo Grimaldi in Cagnes-sur-Mer with the Fall of Phaeton and sent works to the Abbey of Weingarten in Germany.
- In the 1640s, he completed his masterpiece, a fresco in the presbytery and apse of the church of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato.
- There are also paintings of his in his hometown of Pieve di Teco as well as in the parish church of Sant'Ambrogio in Alassio.
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