Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VI, 1951 Art & architecture Artists

John of San Giovanni

GIOVANNI DA SAN GIOVANNI

By Alberto Neppi

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Also known as: Italian: Giovanni da S. Giovanni

GIOVANNI DA SAN GIOVANNI - The Redeemer at table served by angels. Fresco - Fiesole, Badia.

JOHN OF SAN GIOVANNI. - Painter, b. at S. Giovanni in Valdarno on 20 March 1592, d. at Florence on 6 Dec. 1636.

A pupil of Matteo Rosselli, he was able to assert, especially in his decorative works in fresco, an original vision of reality, with an abundance of piquant episodes, fresh patches of colour and spatial and atmospheric intuitions that anticipate certain nineteenth-century achievements. Chiefly appreciated are his crowded and lively decoration of the apse semidome in the church of the SS. Quattro Coronati, in Rome, and the allegories, in honour of Lorenzo the Magnificent, that adorn the Sala degli argenti, in the Palazzo Pitti, in Florence.

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BIBL.: F. Baldinucci, Notizie dei professori del disegno..., IV, Florence 1846, pp. 191-278; O. H. Giglioli, G. da S. G., ibid. 1920; G. Delogu, G. da S. G., in L'arte, 18 (1925), pp. 111-127; S. Lazzaro, Affreschi inediti di G. da S. G., in Arti figurative, 3 (1947), pp. 20-28.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI (1951), col. 606.

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Neppi, Alberto. “Giovanni da San Giovanni.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, col. 606. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/giovanni-da-san-giovanni.

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Neppi, Alberto. “Giovanni da San Giovanni.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VI, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 606. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/giovanni-da-san-giovanni.

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  author    = {Neppi, Alberto},
  title     = {Giovanni da San Giovanni},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VI},
  pages     = {606},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/giovanni-da-san-giovanni}
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