Giovanni Anastasi

This article is about the Italian painter (1653–1704). For the art merchant in Egypt (1780–1860), see Giovanni Anastasi (merchant).

Giovanni Anastasi (Senigallia, March 20, 1653 - Macerata, March 13, 1704) was an Italian painter, mainly of religious and history paintings.[1]

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He painted portraits in Senigallia of Cardinal legates Cantelmi (1690) and Altieri (1697). He also painted the Miracles of St Phillip (1861) for church of san Filippo in Ostra.He painted a Glory of Saint Ursula on the cupola of the Church of Sant'Orsola in Pergola. His master works include 13 large frescoes in the Cloister of San Nicola in Tolentino, completed with the quadratura painter Agostino Orsini of Bologna with who he also worked in Pergola. Works by Anastasi are also found in Fossombrone, San Costanzo, and Urbino. He died while completing decoration of the ceiling of Palazzo de Vico in Macerata.[2]

Other sources cite a Giovanni Anastasi (1540–1587), painter, follower of Giulio Romano, active mainly in Mantua.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Garollo, Gottardo (1907). Ulrico Hoepli, ed. Dizionario biografico universale. Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan. p. 87.
  2. ↑ Pamphlet for Exhibition 2007 on artist by Rosaria Leonardi Cenerelli.
  3. ↑ 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 14.