Giovanni de' Vecchi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Giovanni de' Vecchi (1536, Sansepolcro – 1614) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.

"Saint Sebastian" (1614); church Sant'Andrea della Valle, Rome

Born in Borgo San Sepolcro, He first apprenticed with the painter Raffaello del Colle, then with Taddeo Zuccari, whom he assisted in the interior decoration of the Villa Farnese at Caprarola, a major work in the Mannerist aesthetics. He also has paintings of the Life of St. Jerome in Ara Coeli In the cupola of the Gesu, he painted the four doctors of the church (Gregory, Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine). The mosaics for the tribune of St. Peter's basilica with St. John and St. Luke are based on his cartoons. He also contributed to the frescoes in the Roman Oratorio del Santissimo Crocifisso.

One of his pupils was Cesare Torelli Romano.

Source

Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum, ed. 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. pp. page 193–4.

Authority control	VIAF: 890297 ISNI: 0000 0000 6638 4386 BNF: cb165517420 ULAN: 500000286

Persondata
Name	De Vecchi, Giovanni
Alternative names
Short description	Italian painter
Date of birth	1536
Place of birth
Date of death	1614
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.