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Giovanni Giacomo Semenza

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Giovanni Giacomo Semenza
BornJuly 18, 1580
Died1638
NationalityItalian
Known forPainting
MovementBaroque

Giovanni Giacomo Semenza (18 July 1580 – 1638) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period. Born in Bologna and also known as Giacomo Sementi. He was a pupil of the painter Denis Calvaert, then of Guido Reni. Among his pupils were Giacinto Brandi. He painted a Christ the Redeemer for the church of St. Catherine in Bologna.

References

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  • Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. London: T&W Boone. p. 280.
  • Featured in the Vite.. of Giovanni Baglione. p. 230.
  • Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins, Volume IV, Scribner and Sons (1887): page 169.