Giovanni Maria Viani
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Giovanni Maria Viani (1636-1700) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Bologna.
Along with Lorenzo Pasinelli, he trained under Flaminio Torre. Among Giovanni's pupils was his son, Domenico (1668-1711), and Giovanni Girolamo Bonesi. He directed a school at Bologna rivaling that of Carlo Cignani. He painted many pictures for the public buildings of Bologna, among them an Annunciation in S. Giuseppe ; and at the Servi S. Filippo Benizi carried up to Heaven and the Coronation of the Virgin. Among his etchings are:
- Christ crowned with Thorns & S. Francis with Infant Jesus in his arms after Annibale Carracci
- Dido and War after Ludovico Carracci.
[edit] References
- Rosini, Giovanni (1847). Storia della Pittura Italiana esposta coi Monumenti, (Época Quarta: Dal Carraci al' Appiani); Volume VII. Presso Niccolò Capurro, Pisa; Original from Oxford University digitized Jan 4, 2007, pages 38-39.
- Bryan, Michael (1889). in Walter Armstrong and Robert Edmund Graves: Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons, page 664.
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