Pietro Paolo Bonzi (c. 1576–1636), also known as il Gobbo dei Carracci (hunchback of the Carracci) or il Gobbo dei Frutti (of fruits), was an Italian painter, best known for his landscapes and still-lifes. A cartoon of the painter shows his highly deformed lordotic posture.[1]
Fruits, Vegetables and a Butterfly (1620), private collection
Italianate River Landscape, private collection
Landscape with Shepherds and Sheep, Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome
At the Louvre, Paris:
Landscape with a Dog
Diana and the Nymph Callisto, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Notes
^The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 5, Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth ... By Anna Forlani Tempesti, pages 332-3
References
Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 158.
"A Pair of Landscape Paintings by Giovanni Battista Viola," Richard E. Spear, The Burlington Magazine (1993) p. 762-764.