Giovanni Stefano Danedi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Giovanni Stefano Danedi (1608 or 1612 - 1690) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period.

He was born at Treviglio, and was the brother of Gioseffo Danedi, also a painter called il Montalto and also a pupil of the painter Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli (il Morazzone) while in Milan. He painted in Milan, including in Santa Maria della Grazie and the Carmine. Also painted frescoes (1648) in the presbitery of the Cahtedral of Monza. Danedi also painted a series of frescoes (1656) for the Villa Frisiani Mereghetti in Corbeto and (1671-788) for two chapels on the right of the church of the Certosa di Pavia. He also painted for the Sanctuary at the Sacro Monte of Varallo. He died in Milan.

[edit] Source

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 54. 
• [1]