Giovanni Andrea Donducci (1575–1655), also known as Mastelletta, was an Italian

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painter of the

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. His father was a maker of vats (''mastelli''). Born in Bologna, he trained in the Carracci ''Academy degli Incamminati'' at about the time when

Domenichino Domenico Zampieri (, ; October 21, 1581 – April 6, 1641), known by the diminutive Domenichino (, ) after his shortness, was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School of painters. Life Domenichino was born in Bologna, son of a shoe ...

Lucio Massari Lucio Massari (22 January 1569 – 3 November 1633) was an Italian painter of the School of Bologna. He was active during the Mannerist and early-Baroque periods. Life and work He was born in Bologna, where he initially apprenticed with an ...

, and perhaps Albani were there. He belongs to the generation of

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- inspired or trained painters comprised by

Giacomo Cavedone Giacomo Cavedone (also called ''Giacomo Cavedoni''; 1577–1660) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Life He belonged to the generation of Carracci-inspired or trained painters that included Giovanni Andrea Donducci (Mastel ...

(1577–1660);

Alessandro Tiarini Alessandro Tiarini (20 March 1577 – 8 February 1668) was an Italian Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. Biography Alessandro Tiarini was born in Bologna. His mother died when he was a child, and he was raised by an aunt. Early on his fa ...

(1577–1668),

Lionello Spada Leonello Spada (also called ''Lionello Spada'') (1576 – 17 May 1622) was an Italians, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and his native city of Bologna, where he became known as one of the followers of Caravaggio. Biogr ...

(1576=1622), and

Lorenzo Garbieri Lorenzo Garbieri (1580 – 5 April 1654) was an Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. He was one of the painters in the studio of Ludovico Carracci and is sometimes called ''il nipote dei Carracci''. He was said t ...

. Art biographer

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claims he befriended the Genoese

Agostino Tassi Agostino Tassi (born Agostino Buonamici; bapt. 3 August 1578 – January 1644) was an Italians, Italian landscape and seascape painter who was convicted of raping Artemisia Gentileschi in 1612. Because he aspired to nobility he modified the deta ...

while in Rome. Between 1613 and 1614, he contributed to the decoration of the chapel of Saint Dominic in the

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in Bologna. On the right side of the chapel ''The Miracle of the Forty Drowned'' (1613) and on the left side the canvas ''Resurrection of the young Napoleone Orsini'' (1614). He also frescoed the patron saints of Bologna on the

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s of the dome: ''San Floriano'', ''St. Francis'', ''San Procolo'' and ''San Petronio''. Malvasia describes him by the late 1620s as increasingly neurotic and reclusive: “an enemy of his friends, suspicious of everyone, hating himself, in other words". His figures have an almost phantasmagoric

Alessandro Magnasco Alessandro Magnasco (February 4, 1667 – March 12, 1749), also known as il Lissandrino, was an Italian late-Baroque painter active mostly in Milan and Genoa. He is best known for stylized, fantastic, often phantasmagoric genre or landscape sce ...

-like fervor, not characteristic of Bolognese classicism. He is also painted elaborate landscapes to his paintings, likely an influence of

Scarsellino Scarsellino or Ippolito Scarsella (1550 (or 1551) – 28 October 1620) was an Italian mid-to-late sixteenth century reformist painter and one of the most important representatives of the School of Ferrara (Painting), School of Ferrara. His lands ...

's and/or

Niccolò dell'Abbate Niccolò dell'Abbate, sometimes Nicolò and Abate (1509 or 15121571) was a Mannerist Italian painter in fresco and oils. He was of the Emilia (region of Italy), Emilian school, and was part of the team of artists called the School of Fontaineble ...

's works.

Anthology of works

*''Jesus served by Angels''(1615–17) *''Charity of a Saint''

References

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Donducci, Giovanni Andrea 1575 births 1655 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters