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(1) Giovanni Bonazza
(b ?Venice, 1654; d Padua, 30 Jan 1736). He worked in Venice until 1696–7, and his early works include the statues of St Peter and St Paul for the façade of the parish church at Fratta Polesine (1682), the monument to Alexander VII in Treviso Cathedral (1689) and works in Venice. Initially his style was close to the heavy classicism of Josse de Corte, but the Alexander VII already reveals the influence of the more Baroque art of Filippo Parodi. In 1696–7 Bonazza settled in Padua with his family and between 1697 and 1710 contributed to the sculptural enrichment of the reliquary chapel at the Santo in Padua, initiated by Parodi. In 1703 Giovanni began carving the marble sections of the altar of the Addolorata in S Maria dei Servi at Padua, where vast marble volutes frame delicate bronze reliefs of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin.
Part of the Bonazza family
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