Giovan Battista Vanni

Giovan Battista Vanni (Florence, 1599 or 1600 - Pistoia 1660) is a painter of the school florentine.

It is formed near Aurelio Lomi, of Matteo Rosselli, Jacopo da Empoli, Cristofano Allori and Giulio Parigi.

Biography

From 1624 to the 1632, it operates in Rome by being subject to the influence of the French painters who are active there.

Returned to Florence, after a short voyage to Venice, it is dedicated to the crowned subjects, by producing many pictorial works.

About 1660, on a ordering of the abbot Ippolito Bracciolini, it has to decorate with fresco the cloister with the monastery olivétain with Saint Benoit in Pistoia. Work consists of twelve tympanums which must tell the Histoire of the riders about Saint Benoit . July 27th, 1660, the artist is taken high fevers, of a faintness and dies.

Works

History of saint Antoine , participation in the frescos of the first cloister of the Couvent San Marco
Venere che piange Adone morente , Museo dell' Opificio delle Pietre Lasts of Florence,
It Trionfo di Davide , Galleria del Palazzo degli Alberti , to Prato,
It San Sebastiano curato black and white flagstone gives church San Giovanni dei Fiorentini to Rome,
Sacra Famiglia idiot San Giovannino (1650), New Yorkean collection of Mr. and Mrs O' Connor Lynch,
Cena in put di Simone Fariseo with the second refectory of the church Santa Maria LED Dyes with carmine of Florence,
Annunciazione , San Francesco di Paola of Florence (1650),
Pietà , Tabernacle with the angle of Via dei Cappuccini of Florence

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