Italian painter. His father, Giovanni Antonio Guidobono (d. 1685), was a maiolica painter and his brother Domenico Guidobono a decorative fresco painter. Bartolomeo Guidobono worked in Savona, Genoa and Turin, and his art brought an elegant, graceful spirit to late Baroque painting in Genoa, offering an alternative to the robustness of his friend and mentor, Domenico Piola, and to the flamboyance of Gregorio de' Ferrari. The small, multiple drapery folds, soft lighting and sweet-faced figures inspired by Correggio made his work irresistible to the public, invaluable to the Casa Piola, and influential on Daniel Seiter and, later, Stefano Maria Legnani (1660-1715) in Turin. //