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Giuseppe Bazzani is the greatest of the artists born in Mantua, where he spent his entire life (1690-1769) frescoing aristocratic palaces and painting canvases with both sacred and profane subjects, with results that make him recognised as a master of 18th-century Europe.

The Museo Diocesano Francesco Gonzaga houses the largest collection of his works, which allows visitors to retrace his entire artistic itinerary and includes masterpieces such as Vulcan and Cupid, The Assumption of the Virgin, the Deposition from the Cathedral and the Vision of St. Romuald.