Giovanni da San Giovanni

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Giovanni da San Giovanni (March 20, 1592- December 6, 1636), also known as Giovanni Mannozzi, was a Florentine painter of the early Baroque period.

Born in San Giovanni Valdarno, he trained under Matteo Rosselli. Mannozzi started the decoration of the Sala degli Argenti in the Palazzo Pitti and planned decorations at Villa Petraia. His biography was featured by Filippo Baldinucci. In 1615 he painted two ceiling canvases of Putti Supporting the Impresa of Michelangelo for the Casa Buonarroti and in the same period frescoed the dome of the church of the Ognissanti, Florence with a choir of musician angels. He also painted five lunettes showing scenes from the Life of St Francis in the cloister. His masterpiece is said to be frescoes in the chapel of the Palazzo Rospigliosi Pallavicini in Pistoia. While escaping Florence during the plague, he painted some frescoes in the lunettes in the Santuario della Madonna della Fontenuova a Monsummano Terme. On the left internal wall of the chorus of the church of San Bartolomeo in Cutigliano, is a canvas of Mannozzi's the Circumcision (1620).

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• Wittkower, Rudolf (1980). Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. Pelican History of Art (Penguin Books Ltd), pp344-345. 
• Grove encyclopedia at Artnet