Giovanni Battista Maganza
Giovanni Battista Maganza | |
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Born | c. 1513 Calaone near Vicenza |
Died | August 25, 1586 |
Other names | Magagnò (pseudonym) |
Occupation | artist, poet |
Giovanni Battista Maganza (c. 1513–August 25, 1586) was a late Renaissance Italian painter and poet, from Vicenza in the area of Calaone, mainly producing religious altarpieces for local churches.
Biography[]
Maganza was also a poet and a friend of Andrea Palladio. He visited Rome between 1546 and 1547 and also met Gian Giorgio Trissino and the poet , he was member of the Accademia Olimpica (Olympic Academy) in Venice where he designed costumes for the play Oedipus Rex, the first opera presented at the Palladio-designed Teatro Olimpico.[1]
As a poet, he wrote satires in the Paduan dialect (and precisely in a now-dead form of it, called "dialetto pavano"), under the nickname Magagnò.
His son Alessandro Maganza was also a prominent local painter. Fontana cites Lanzi and Zanetti as Maganza's dates of birth and death as 1509 and 1589[2] Giovanni De Mio was one of his pupils.
Works[]
Partial listing:
- San Girolamo penitente (Saint Jerome Penitent) (1570),[3] San Marco in San Girolamo church, Vicenza
- Pala del Rosario (1583), Montebello Vicentino church.
- La conversione di S.Paolo (Conversion of Saint Paul) (16th century), at the large altar of the Novale di Valdagno church, Vicenza.
- Frescoes in Villa Repeta and Campiglia dei Berici.[4]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ "Maganza". Archived from the original on 2009-04-27. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
- ^ Illustrazione storico-critica della chiesa di S. Sofia che si Riapre al Culto Divino Dalla sua Primissa Fondazione fino a' Nostri Giorni. (1836) by Gian Jacopo Fontana; Giuseppe Molinari Editor, Venice. Page 27.
- ^ Sgarbi 1980
- ^ RAI documentary: Italica - Renaissance Archived 2008-03-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
Bibliography[]
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- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books. p. 565.
- 1510s births
- 1586 deaths
- 16th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- Painters from Vicenza
- People from Vicenza
- Italian poets
- Italian male poets
- Italian painter, 16th-century birth stubs