Giovanni Battista Maganza

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Giovanni Battista Maganza, Saint Jerome penitent (1570), detail. San Marco in San Girolamo, Vicenza.

Giovanni Battista Maganza (c. 1513–1586) was a late Renaissance Italian painter and poet, from Vicenza, mainly producing religious altarpieces for local churches. He was also a poet and a friend of Andrea Palladio. His son Alessandro Maganza was also a prominent local painter. Fontana cites Lanzi and Zanetti as Maganza's dates of birth and death as 1509 and 1589^[1]

References

Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art, ed. Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books. p. 565.

↑ Illustrazione storico-critica della chiesa di S. Sofia che si Riapre al Culto Divino Dalla sua Primissa Fondazione fino a' Nostri Giorni. (1836) by Gian Jacopo Fontana; Giuseppe Molinari Editor, Venice. Page 27.

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Name	Maganza, Giovanni Battista
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Short description	Italian painter
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Date of death	1586
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Giovanni Battista Maganza

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