Family
In 1775 he married Rosa Florini, Angelica Kauffmann's cousin. He was the father of Ignatius Bonomi (1787-1870), also an architect, and of Joseph Bonomi the Younger (1796-1878), who became an eminent sculptor, artist and Egyptologist.
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