Giovanni Battista Tinti

Giovanni Battista Tinti, The Assumption of the Virgin, 1591. Altarpiece in Cathedral of Parma

Giovanni Battista Tinti (late 16th century) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He studied first under Orazio Samacchini in Bologna, and subsequently established himself in Parma, where he took Tibaldi, Correggio, and Parmigianino for his models. He painted an Assumption for the cathedral of Parma. he painted the cupola frescoes for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Parma.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. 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. pp. page 574.