It appears
Cesare Malvasia confused him with
il Nosadella or Giovanni Francesco Bezzi, who lived and was active only in the 16th century. Brizio was born in
Bologna. He was initially a pupil of
Bartolommeo Passarotti, but then became a pupil under
Agostino and
Ludovico Carracci. He helped paint, along with
Lucio Massari and
Leonello Spada, stories of Torquato Tasso's epic in the loggias of the
Palazzo Bentivoglio. He also frescoed a ceiling for the signori Conti Boschetti in
Modena and in the Oratorio della SS Trinità in Pieve di
Cento. In
Bologna, he painted a
Coronation of the Madonna del Borgo for the church of
San Petronio. He also frescoed in the cloister of
San Michele in Bosco. His son
Filippo became a pupil of
Guido Reni. Another pupil was
Domenico Ambrogi. In engraving he was instructed by
Agostino Carracci, and he is said to have forwarded some of the plates of that master. He died at
Bologna in 1623. == Works ==