Giovanni Battista Cremonini
Giovanni Battista Cremonini (c. 1550 - 1610) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Biography[edit]
Born in Cento, but mostly active in Bologna. His father Matteo Cremonini was also a painter. Giambattista was active in fresco decoration of houses, he was aided by his cousin, Bartolommeo Ramenghi.[1] One of his pupils was Odoardo Fialetti.
Among his works in Bologna are the following:[2]
- Frescoes in the Casa Lucchini
- St Jerome and St Lawrence for Chapel of the Annunciation of the church of San Domenico
- Above entrance to Church of San Francesco in Bologna
- Decorations in Cantone of the Colegio di Spagna
- Crucifix for church of the Scalzi
- History of the building of the church in first chapel of the church of Santa Maria del Monte
- Decorations lateral to Francesco Francia's altarpiece of St Roch in Chiesa dell Morte
- Infirmary of San Michele in Bosco
References[edit]
- ^ Lanzi p. 53
- ^ Catalogo istorico de' pittori e scultori ferraresi e delle opere loro., Volume 1; author Cesare Cittadella; published by Francesco Pomatelli in Ferrara, 1782, Page 157-160.
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 51.
- Grove Art Encyclopedia on Artnet biography on Fialetti
- Lanzi, Luigi (1847). History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Vol. III. Translated by Thomas Roscoe. London: Henry G. Bohn. p. 53.
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