Giovanni Maria dell Piane

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Portrait of a Gentleman by Giovanni Maria delle Piane, il Mulinaretto, 17th century, Private Collection.

Giovanni Maria delle Piane (1660 - 28 June 1745) was an Italian painter of royal portraits in the late-Baroque period. He is also known as "il Mulinaretto".

Giovanni Maria delle Piane was born in Novi Ligure, Italy and trained in Rome with a Genovese, Giuseppe Paravagna. He was the court painter to the Farnese at their courts at Parma and Piacenza and later to the Bourbons at Naples. He had an artistic relationship with Elizabeth Farnese, the wife of Phillip V of Spain and the mother of Charles III of Spain. The artist's work is in Caserta Palace and in the royal palace of Madrid's collection of royal family portraits.

His son, Giovanni Andrea, (died 1759) was a painter of portraits.

[edit] See also

• Delle Piane family
• Baroque
• Elizabeth Farnese
• Caserta Palace

[edit] References

• Soprani, Raffaello (1769). in Carlo Giuseppe Ratti: Delle vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti genovesi; Tomo secundo scritto da Carlo Giuseppe Ratti. Stamperia Casamara in Genoa, dalle Cinque Lampadi, con licenza de Superiori; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Feb. 2, 2007, pages 146. 

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