(b Fucine d’Ossana, Trent, 6 Feb 1851; d Cles, Trent, 8 Oct 1923). Italian painter. From 1871 Bezzi studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera under Giuseppe Bertini. There he became friends with Francesco Filippini (1853–95) and was influenced by the younger generation of artists then active in Milan, especially by Filippo Carcano’s landscape studies. Bezzi became popular as a landscape, and sometimes genre, painter with such works as Mills on the Adige (1882; Rome, G.N.A. Mod.) and received many commissions. The influence of GLI SCAPIGLIATI in their treatment of light and colour is apparent in the clear tones in which he painted, and many of his paintings exude a melancholic atmosphere, for example Last Light (Turin, Gal. Civ. A. Mod.) and Prelude to Evening (Rome, G.N.A. Mod.). In 1890 Bezzi moved to Venice, where he executed many views of the city and its lagoon, such as Church of the Salute (Venice, Ca’ Pesaro). There he became particularly friendly with Guglielmo Ciardi (1842–1917), Luigi Nono (1850–1918) and Marius De Maria, ‘Marius Pictor’ (1852–1924). Bezzi and De Maria were responsible for the acceptance of foreign artists to the Venice Biennale in 1895. Bezzi himself exhibited 11 works in the Biennale that year.